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- The io_mapping functions
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- API
- ===
- The io_mapping functions in linux/io-mapping.h provide an abstraction for
- efficiently mapping small regions of an I/O device to the CPU. The initial
- usage is to support the large graphics aperture on 32-bit processors where
- ioremap_wc cannot be used to statically map the entire aperture to the CPU
- as it would consume too much of the kernel address space.
- A mapping object is created during driver initialization using::
- struct io_mapping *io_mapping_create_wc(unsigned long base,
- unsigned long size)
- 'base' is the bus address of the region to be made
- mappable, while 'size' indicates how large a mapping region to
- enable. Both are in bytes.
- This _wc variant provides a mapping which may only be used with
- io_mapping_map_atomic_wc(), io_mapping_map_local_wc() or
- io_mapping_map_wc().
- With this mapping object, individual pages can be mapped either temporarily
- or long term, depending on the requirements. Of course, temporary maps are
- more efficient. They come in two flavours::
- void *io_mapping_map_local_wc(struct io_mapping *mapping,
- unsigned long offset)
- void *io_mapping_map_atomic_wc(struct io_mapping *mapping,
- unsigned long offset)
- 'offset' is the offset within the defined mapping region. Accessing
- addresses beyond the region specified in the creation function yields
- undefined results. Using an offset which is not page aligned yields an
- undefined result. The return value points to a single page in CPU address
- space.
- This _wc variant returns a write-combining map to the page and may only be
- used with mappings created by io_mapping_create_wc()
- Temporary mappings are only valid in the context of the caller. The mapping
- is not guaranteed to be globaly visible.
- io_mapping_map_local_wc() has a side effect on X86 32bit as it disables
- migration to make the mapping code work. No caller can rely on this side
- effect.
- io_mapping_map_atomic_wc() has the side effect of disabling preemption and
- pagefaults. Don't use in new code. Use io_mapping_map_local_wc() instead.
- Nested mappings need to be undone in reverse order because the mapping
- code uses a stack for keeping track of them::
- addr1 = io_mapping_map_local_wc(map1, offset1);
- addr2 = io_mapping_map_local_wc(map2, offset2);
- ...
- io_mapping_unmap_local(addr2);
- io_mapping_unmap_local(addr1);
- The mappings are released with::
- void io_mapping_unmap_local(void *vaddr)
- void io_mapping_unmap_atomic(void *vaddr)
- 'vaddr' must be the value returned by the last io_mapping_map_local_wc() or
- io_mapping_map_atomic_wc() call. This unmaps the specified mapping and
- undoes the side effects of the mapping functions.
- If you need to sleep while holding a mapping, you can use the regular
- variant, although this may be significantly slower::
- void *io_mapping_map_wc(struct io_mapping *mapping,
- unsigned long offset)
- This works like io_mapping_map_atomic/local_wc() except it has no side
- effects and the pointer is globaly visible.
- The mappings are released with::
- void io_mapping_unmap(void *vaddr)
- Use for pages mapped with io_mapping_map_wc().
- At driver close time, the io_mapping object must be freed::
- void io_mapping_free(struct io_mapping *mapping)
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