like open, close and fault using the character device pager.
Some notes about the implementation:
1) Linux drivers set the vm_ops and vm_private_data fields during a
mmap() call to indicate that the driver wants to use the LinuxKPI VM
operations. Else these operations are not used.
2) The vm_private_data pointer is associated with a VM area structure
and inserted into an internal LinuxKPI list. If the vm_private_data
pointer already exists, the existing VM area structure is used instead
of the allocated one which gets freed.
3) The LinuxKPI's vm_private_data pointer is used as the callback
handle for the FreeBSD VM object. The VM subsystem in FreeBSD has a
similar list to identify equal handles and will only call the
character device pager's close function once.
4) All LinuxKPI VM operations are serialized through the mmap_sem
sempaphore, which is per procedure, which prevents simultaneous access
to the shared VM area structure when receiving page faults.
Obtained from: kmacy @
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
the LinuxKPI for accessing user-space memory in the kernel.
Add functions to hold and wire physical page(s) based on a given range
of user-space virtual addresses.
Add functions to get and put a reference on, wire, hold, mark
accessed, copy and dirty a physical page.
Add new VM related structures and defines as a preparation step for
advancing the memory map capabilities of the LinuxKPI.
Add function to figure out if a virtual address was allocated using
malloc().
Add function to convert a virtual kernel address into its physical
page pointer.
Obtained from: kmacy @
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
- Move all files related to the LinuxKPI into sys/compat/linuxkpi and
its subfolders.
- Update sys/conf/files and some Makefiles to use new file locations.
- Added description of COMPAT_LINUXKPI to sys/conf/NOTES which in turn
adds the LinuxKPI to all LINT builds.
- The LinuxKPI can be added to the kernel by setting the
COMPAT_LINUXKPI option. The OFED kernel option no longer builds the
LinuxKPI into the kernel. This was done to keep the build rules for
the LinuxKPI in sys/conf/files simple.
- Extend the LinuxKPI module to include support for USB by moving the
Linux USB compat from usb.ko to linuxkpi.ko.
- Bump the FreeBSD_version.
- A universe kernel build has been done.
Reviewed by: np @ (cxgb and cxgbe related changes only)
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
