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16 years ago

How to get Physical Address in uClinux with MMU

Hi~

I am using uClinux with mmu right now.

and I want to write a driver for SGDMA(Stream to Memory).

I need physical address to set up SGDMA.

Is there anyone know about it?

Right Now, my design is I use mmap to alloc a space which kernel and user can share this memory.

My plan is pass this memory address to sgdma, than sgdma can direct write to it.

My program in user mode can direct get from there.

Is my idea possible?

However I need this physical address, and I try to use virt_to_phys to get physical address,

but it return a wrong address.

Cound anyone tell me how to get the address?

Or, is there anyone have this kind of design before.

Could you share with me how you design.

My virtual address is 0x2adfb0000, and I use (virt_to_phys) to transfer to physical address, 0x6adfb0000. I don't think this is real physical address.

Thanks for your help

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    16 years ago

    I don't think it's a good idea to do DMA from a user land program.

    If you have a device driver that allows the user program to do mmap, why not enhance same to do the DMA stuff ?

    -Michael
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    16 years ago

    Hi Michael

    Right now, I am trying to write a driver for my SGDMA.

    I just test I can create a memory space.

    I want to tell my DMA he can write to this memory space.

    I need to pass this start address to DMA.

    But I don't know how to get physical address.

    Thanks Michael for your reply.
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    16 years ago

    For the same physical memory, the address trhe user space program sees is different from the one the device driver sees. To access user space memory (e.g. for pointers provided by the user space program when calling the driver, I understand that (usually) a standard function is called, that _copies_ the appropriate memory block. I don't know how to make the driver determine the physical address or the Kernel virtual address of a pointer it gets from a user memory block from/to the Kernel space. Maybe in fact this is not provided as it asks for nasty side effects.

    -Michael
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    16 years ago

    Hi,

    --- Quote Start ---

    Right Now, my design is I use mmap to alloc a space which kernel and user can share this memory.

    My plan is pass this memory address to sgdma, than sgdma can direct write to it.

    My program in user mode can direct get from there.

    Is my idea possible?

    However I need this physical address, and I try to use virt_to_phys to get physical address,

    but it return a wrong address.

    ...

    My virtual address is 0x2adfb0000, and I use (virt_to_phys) to transfer to physical address, 0x6adfb0000. I don't think this is real physical address.

    --- Quote End ---

    Maybe, the next site will be helpful for you.

    http://www.scs.ch/~frey/linux/memorymap.html (http://www.scs.ch/%7efrey/linux/memorymap.html)

    The macro 'virt_to_phys' can be used only for 'kernel virtual address', not for user space virtual address.

    Kazu
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    16 years ago

    Hi htmin,

    How did you boot your board with uClinux?

    My board is NEEK and I tried the steps in Wiki http://www.nioswiki.com/linux/linux_quick_start

    with cycloneIII_embedded_evaluation_kit_standard.sof (neek_web_server_mmu.zip) and cycloneIII_3c25_niosII_standard (example/standard) 

    
$ nios2-configure-sof /home/user/Altera/kits/cycloneIII_3c25_niosII/examples/standard_cd/cycloneIII_embedded_evaluation_kit_standard.sof 
/opt/altera10.0sp1/quartus/adm/qenv.sh: line 109: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_US): No such file or directory
Info: *******************************************************************
Info: Running Quartus II Programmer
Info: Command: quartus_pgm --no_banner --mode=jtag -o p;/home/rgnurrahmat/Altera/kits/cycloneIII_3c25_niosII/examples/standard_cd/cycloneIII_embedded_evaluation_kit_standard.sof
Info: Using programming cable "USB-Blaster "
Info: Using programming file /home/rgnurrahmat/Altera/kits/cycloneIII_3c25_niosII/examples/standard_cd/cycloneIII_embedded_evaluation_kit_standard.sof with checksum 0x00D122FE for device EP3C25F324@1
Info: Started Programmer operation at Thu Sep 16 03:31:39 2010
Info: Configuring device index 1
Info: Device 1 contains JTAG ID code 0x020F30DD
Info: Configuration succeeded -- 1 device(s) configured
Info: Successfully performed operation(s)
Info: Ended Programmer operation at Thu Sep 16 03:31:41 2010
Info: Quartus II Programmer was successful. 0 errors, 0 warnings
    Info: Peak virtual memory: 77 megabytes
    Info: Processing ended: Thu Sep 16 03:31:41 2010
    Info: Elapsed time: 00:00:05
    Info: Total CPU time (on all processors): 00:00:01
~/nios2-linux/uClinux-dist
$ nios2-download -g images/linux.initramfs.gz 
/opt/altera10.0sp1/quartus/adm/qenv.sh: line 109: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_US): No such file or directory
Using cable "USB-Blaster ", device 1, instance 0x00
Processor is already paused
Initializing CPU cache (if present)
OK
Downloaded 5283KB in 47.3s (111.6KB/s)
Verified OK                         
Starting processor at address 0xD0000000
~/nios2-linux/uClinux-dist
$ nios2-terminal
nios2-terminal: Unable to connect to JTAG UART because another application
nios2-terminal: is using it (or is using something else which clashes). Please close
nios2-terminal: the other application and try again.
~/nios2-linux/uClinux-dist
$ nios2-terminal
nios2-terminal: connected to hardware target using JTAG UART on cable
nios2-terminal: "USB-Blaster ", device 1, instance 0
nios2-terminal: (Use the IDE stop button or Ctrl-C to terminate)
+  Stopped                 nios2-terminal
~/nios2-linux/uClinux-dist
$ ^C
~/nios2-linux/uClinux-dist
$
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    16 years ago

    nios2-terminal: Unable to connect to JTAG UART because another application

    nios2-terminal: is using it (or is using something else which clashes). Please close

    nios2-terminal: the other application and try again.

    Did you open nios2 ide connect to your development board?

    It shows you have another thing connect to your board..

    The second time you can't open it, is because first time you trigger it and it show everything already.

    Check do you have other thing connect to it or not.

    Nioswiki demo file is ok to use