Hello everyone!
I need reserve 256-512 Mb of continuous physical memory and have access to this
memory from the user space.
I decided to use CMA for memory reserving.
Here are the steps on my idea that must be performed:
1. Reservation required amount of memory by CMA during system booting.
2. Parsing of CMA patch output which looks like for example: "CMA: reserved 256
MiB at 27400000" and saving two parameters: size of CMA area = 256*1024*1024
bytes and phys address of CMA area = 0x27400000.
3. Mapping of CMA area at /dev/mem file with offset = 0x27400000 using mmap().
(Of course, CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM is disabled)
It would let me to read data directly from phys memory from user space.
But the next code make segmentation fault(there size = 1Mb):
int file;
void* start;
file=open("/dev/mem", O_RDWR | O_SYNC);
if ( (start = mmap(0, 1024*1024, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, file,
0x27400000)) == MAP_FAILED ){
perror("mmap");
}
for (int offs = 0; offs<50; offs++){
cout<<((char *)start)[offs];
}
Output of this code: "mmap: Invalid argument".
When I changed offset = 0x27400000 on 0, this code worked fine and program
displayed trash. It also work for alot of offsets which I looked at /proc/iomem.
According to information from /proc/iomem, phys addr of CMA area (0x27400000 on
my system) always situated in System RAM.
Does anyone have any ideas, how to mmap CMA area on /dev/mem? What am I doing
wrong?
Thanks alot for any help!
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