Hi.
I posted about this a few days ago but got no responses
so far! I think this should be a trivial question for those
involved in the kernel internals. May be I didn't develop
the problem enough to be understood.
So, here is the question reformulated.
A given file system must supply a procedure for mmap.
int <fsname>_file_mmap(struct file * file, struct vm_area_struct * vma)
{
int addr;
addr=generic_file_mmap(file,vma);
<Code to access addr pointed bytes or vma->vm_start>
return addr;
}
I could verify that "addr" is what is returned to the user as
a pointer to a string of bytes that maps a file when a user
program calls mmap or mmap2.
In the user program, I can access those bytes (read/write)
as, for ex., a char pointer.
I don't know how to access those bytes inside the kernel
at the point <Code to access addr pointed bytes or vma->vm_start>
First trys led the program that invoked mmap to block.
I thought that there's something to do with a previous
down_write(¤t->mm->mmap_sem);
If I execute
up_write(¤t->mm->mmap_sem);
before accessing the data the block situation does not
occur anymore. I would like to hear something about
this.
Anyway, I tryed to use "copy_from_user" but I got
garbage, not the file contents! Using "strncpy" crashes
the kernel (UML)!
Can someone please write a fragment of code to safely
access those bytes, copying them to and from a
kernel char pointed area so that they are read/written
to the file?
Thank you very much.
Paulo
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