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+The io_mapping functions in linux/io-mapping.h provide an abstraction for
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+efficiently mapping small regions of an I/O device to the CPU. The initial
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+usage is to support the large graphics aperture on 32-bit processors where
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+ioremap_wc cannot be used to statically map the entire aperture to the CPU
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+as it would consume too much of the kernel address space.
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+A mapping object is created during driver initialization using
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+ struct io_mapping *io_mapping_create_wc(unsigned long base,
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+ unsigned long size)
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+ 'base' is the bus address of the region to be made
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+ mappable, while 'size' indicates how large a mapping region to
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+ enable. Both are in bytes.
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+ This _wc variant provides a mapping which may only be used
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+ with the io_mapping_map_atomic_wc or io_mapping_map_wc.
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+With this mapping object, individual pages can be mapped either atomically
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+or not, depending on the necessary scheduling environment. Of course, atomic
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+maps are more efficient:
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+ void *io_mapping_map_atomic_wc(struct io_mapping *mapping,
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+ unsigned long offset)
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+
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+ 'offset' is the offset within the defined mapping region.
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+ Accessing addresses beyond the region specified in the
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+ creation function yields undefined results. Using an offset
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+ which is not page aligned yields an undefined result. The
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+ return value points to a single page in CPU address space.
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+
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+ This _wc variant returns a write-combining map to the
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+ page and may only be used with mappings created by
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+ io_mapping_create_wc
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+ Note that the task may not sleep while holding this page
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+ mapped.
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+ void io_mapping_unmap_atomic(void *vaddr)
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+ 'vaddr' must be the the value returned by the last
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+ io_mapping_map_atomic_wc call. This unmaps the specified
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+ page and allows the task to sleep once again.
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+If you need to sleep while holding the lock, you can use the non-atomic
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+variant, although they may be significantly slower.
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+ void *io_mapping_map_wc(struct io_mapping *mapping,
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+ unsigned long offset)
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+ This works like io_mapping_map_atomic_wc except it allows
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+ the task to sleep while holding the page mapped.
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+ void io_mapping_unmap(void *vaddr)
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+ This works like io_mapping_unmap_atomic, except it is used
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+ for pages mapped with io_mapping_map_wc.
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+At driver close time, the io_mapping object must be freed:
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+ void io_mapping_free(struct io_mapping *mapping)
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+Current Implementation:
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+The initial implementation of these functions uses existing mapping
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+mechanisms and so provides only an abstraction layer and no new
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+functionality.
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+On 64-bit processors, io_mapping_create_wc calls ioremap_wc for the whole
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+range, creating a permanent kernel-visible mapping to the resource. The
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+map_atomic and map functions add the requested offset to the base of the
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+virtual address returned by ioremap_wc.
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+On 32-bit processors, io_mapping_map_atomic_wc uses io_map_atomic_prot_pfn,
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+which uses the fixmaps to get us a mapping to a page using an atomic fashion.
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+For io_mapping_map_wc, ioremap_wc() is used to get a mapping of the region.
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