sasha wrote:
Hi folks.
I am looking for a way to map a memory (allocated with get_free_pages())
from kernel space to user space, so that I will later be able to map it
back with get_user_pages().
I tried remap_pfn_range(), but it didn't work as it assumes the memory
being mapped is IO range (marking vma with VM_IO flag), while
get_user_pages() works on regular memory.
Any ideas?
VM_IO flag means not to swap this memory and don't do any side-effects bound
with that IIRC.
If you want to mmap some memory in kernel to allow userspace to be able to read
from it, just remap and don't care. I actually don't understand, what you mean
by remapping it back to kernelspace, can you be more specific?
Caveat of get_free_pages is that it allocates physically contiguous memory and
this may fail in later times, when the memory is not so free. You can use
virtual memory to avoid this: vmalloc_32_user, remap_vmalloc_range, vfree.
regards,
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