On Tuesday, April 11, 2006 4:59 pm, Ian Romanick wrote:
> Ian Romanick wrote:
> > I'm in the process of modifying X to be civilized in it's handling
> > of PCI devices on Linux. As part of that, I've modified it to map
> > the /sys/bus/pci/device/*/resource[0-6] files instead of mucking
> > about with /dev/mem.
> >
> > This seems to mostly work, but I am having one problem. I map the
> > region by opening the file with O_RDWR, then mmap with
> > (PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE) and MAP_SHARED. In all cases, the open and
> > mmap succeed. However, for I/O BARs, the resulting pointer from
> > mmap is invalid. Any access to it results in a segfault and GDB
> > says it's "out of range".
>
> I was a little mistaken about this. The BAR that causes the problem
> is not I/O. It *is* memory.
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. G400/G450
> (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> Subsystem: Matrox Graphics, Inc. Millennium G400 16Mb SGRAM
> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
> Memory at cc000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
> Memory at cfefc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
> Memory at cf000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
> Expansion ROM at cfee0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
>
> When I open and mmap resource0 (the framebuffer) I get 0x2b9aa48ea000.
> When I open and mmap resource1 (the card's registers) I get
> 0x2b9aa68ea000. I can access the resource0 pointer all day long
> without problems. The firs access to the resource1 pointer results in
> a segfault.
Hm, that's strange. On my via machine I can access all my VGA resources
correctly, but that's not x86-64. Maybe the x86-64 implementation of
pci_mmap_page_range is doing the wrong thing for uncacheable, non-WC
regions somehow?
Jesse
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