Misbah khan wrote:

4. Now we want our 9MB SDRAM to point to the kernel circular buffer we want
our circular buffer to be mapped to continues paged so that we could map it
to user space.

Physically contiguous or virtually contiguous? I think you only need the buffer to be virtually contiguous, which vmalloc gives you. You only need it to be physically contiguous if you are passing this buffer to hardware via DMA (and the hardware cannot handle scatter/gather).

If you need it to be physically contiguous, you'll have to use a function like alloc_pages() (or the new alloc_pages_exact, which will be in 2.6.27). To allocate 9MB, you'll need to increase CONFIG_FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER to 12.

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Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale
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