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-[ NOTE: The virt_to_bus() and bus_to_virt() functions have been
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+==========================================================
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+How to access I/O mapped memory from within device drivers
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+==========================================================
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+:Author: Linus
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+.. warning::
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+
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+ The virt_to_bus() and bus_to_virt() functions have been
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superseded by the functionality provided by the PCI DMA interface
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(see Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt). They continue
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to be documented below for historical purposes, but new code
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- must not use them. --davidm 00/12/12 ]
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+ must not use them. --davidm 00/12/12
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-[ This is a mail message in response to a query on IO mapping, thus the
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- strange format for a "document" ]
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+::
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+
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+ [ This is a mail message in response to a query on IO mapping, thus the
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+ strange format for a "document" ]
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The AHA-1542 is a bus-master device, and your patch makes the driver give the
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controller the physical address of the buffers, which is correct on x86
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(because all bus master devices see the physical memory mappings directly).
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-However, on many setups, there are actually _three_ different ways of looking
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+However, on many setups, there are actually **three** different ways of looking
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at memory addresses, and in this case we actually want the third, the
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so-called "bus address".
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@@ -38,7 +48,7 @@ because the memory and the devices share the same address space, and that is
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not generally necessarily true on other PCI/ISA setups.
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Now, just as an example, on the PReP (PowerPC Reference Platform), the
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-CPU sees a memory map something like this (this is from memory):
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+CPU sees a memory map something like this (this is from memory)::
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0-2 GB "real memory"
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2 GB-3 GB "system IO" (inb/out and similar accesses on x86)
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@@ -52,7 +62,7 @@ So when the CPU wants any bus master to write to physical memory 0, it
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has to give the master address 0x80000000 as the memory address.
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So, for example, depending on how the kernel is actually mapped on the
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-PPC, you can end up with a setup like this:
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+PPC, you can end up with a setup like this::
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physical address: 0
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virtual address: 0xC0000000
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@@ -61,7 +71,7 @@ PPC, you can end up with a setup like this:
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where all the addresses actually point to the same thing. It's just seen
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through different translations..
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-Similarly, on the Alpha, the normal translation is
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+Similarly, on the Alpha, the normal translation is::
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physical address: 0
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virtual address: 0xfffffc0000000000
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@@ -70,7 +80,7 @@ Similarly, on the Alpha, the normal translation is
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(but there are also Alphas where the physical address and the bus address
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are the same).
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-Anyway, the way to look up all these translations, you do
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+Anyway, the way to look up all these translations, you do::
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#include <asm/io.h>
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@@ -81,8 +91,8 @@ Anyway, the way to look up all these translations, you do
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Now, when do you need these?
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-You want the _virtual_ address when you are actually going to access that
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-pointer from the kernel. So you can have something like this:
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+You want the **virtual** address when you are actually going to access that
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+pointer from the kernel. So you can have something like this::
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/*
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* this is the hardware "mailbox" we use to communicate with
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@@ -104,7 +114,7 @@ pointer from the kernel. So you can have something like this:
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...
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on the other hand, you want the bus address when you have a buffer that
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-you want to give to the controller:
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+you want to give to the controller::
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/* ask the controller to read the sense status into "sense_buffer" */
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mbox.bufstart = virt_to_bus(&sense_buffer);
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@@ -112,7 +122,7 @@ you want to give to the controller:
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mbox.status = 0;
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notify_controller(&mbox);
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-And you generally _never_ want to use the physical address, because you can't
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+And you generally **never** want to use the physical address, because you can't
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use that from the CPU (the CPU only uses translated virtual addresses), and
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you can't use it from the bus master.
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@@ -124,8 +134,10 @@ be remapped as measured in units of pages, a.k.a. the pfn (the memory
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management layer doesn't know about devices outside the CPU, so it
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shouldn't need to know about "bus addresses" etc).
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-NOTE NOTE NOTE! The above is only one part of the whole equation. The above
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-only talks about "real memory", that is, CPU memory (RAM).
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+.. note::
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+
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+ The above is only one part of the whole equation. The above
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+ only talks about "real memory", that is, CPU memory (RAM).
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There is a completely different type of memory too, and that's the "shared
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memory" on the PCI or ISA bus. That's generally not RAM (although in the case
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@@ -137,20 +149,22 @@ whatever, and there is only one way to access it: the readb/writeb and
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related functions. You should never take the address of such memory, because
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there is really nothing you can do with such an address: it's not
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conceptually in the same memory space as "real memory" at all, so you cannot
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-just dereference a pointer. (Sadly, on x86 it _is_ in the same memory space,
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+just dereference a pointer. (Sadly, on x86 it **is** in the same memory space,
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so on x86 it actually works to just deference a pointer, but it's not
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portable).
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-For such memory, you can do things like
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+For such memory, you can do things like:
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+
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+ - reading::
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- - reading:
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/*
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* read first 32 bits from ISA memory at 0xC0000, aka
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* C000:0000 in DOS terms
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*/
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unsigned int signature = isa_readl(0xC0000);
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- - remapping and writing:
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+ - remapping and writing::
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+
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/*
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* remap framebuffer PCI memory area at 0xFC000000,
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* size 1MB, so that we can access it: We can directly
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@@ -165,7 +179,8 @@ For such memory, you can do things like
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/* unmap when we unload the driver */
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iounmap(baseptr);
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- - copying and clearing:
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+ - copying and clearing::
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+
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/* get the 6-byte Ethernet address at ISA address E000:0040 */
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memcpy_fromio(kernel_buffer, 0xE0040, 6);
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/* write a packet to the driver */
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@@ -181,10 +196,10 @@ happy that your driver works ;)
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Note that kernel versions 2.0.x (and earlier) mistakenly called the
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ioremap() function "vremap()". ioremap() is the proper name, but I
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didn't think straight when I wrote it originally. People who have to
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-support both can do something like:
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+support both can do something like::
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/* support old naming silliness */
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- #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < 0x020100
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+ #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < 0x020100
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#define ioremap vremap
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#define iounmap vfree
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#endif
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@@ -196,13 +211,10 @@ And the above sounds worse than it really is. Most real drivers really
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don't do all that complex things (or rather: the complexity is not so
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much in the actual IO accesses as in error handling and timeouts etc).
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It's generally not hard to fix drivers, and in many cases the code
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-actually looks better afterwards:
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+actually looks better afterwards::
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unsigned long signature = *(unsigned int *) 0xC0000;
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vs
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unsigned long signature = readl(0xC0000);
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I think the second version actually is more readable, no?
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-
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- Linus
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