linux-kernel - Re: Using uio_pdrv to create an platform device for an FPGA, mmap() fails

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Date:	Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:00:19 +0200
From:	"Hans J. Koch" <hjk@...sjkoch.de>
To:	"Worth, Kevin" <kevin.worth@...com>
Cc:	"Hans J. Koch" <hjk@...sjkoch.de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de" <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Subject: Re: Using uio_pdrv to create an platform device for an FPGA, mmap()
 fails

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 06:36:53PM +0000, Worth, Kevin wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, Hans. Your question about opening /dev/uio0 O_RDWR
> prompted me to check out how I was creating /dev/uio0 ... my system
> isn't using udev, and I was accidentally creating it with major/minor
> number 254/0 instead of the correct 253/0 (found by looking at
> /proc/devices). Fixed that and the mmap() call started working.

Good.

> 
> Verified that if /dev/uio0 has permissions 0644, root can open it O_RDWR
> and mmap PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE using the below code and write to an
> address within my memory map. Of course this contradicts the statement
> "/dev/uioX is a read-only file" in the UIO howto.

You're right. That wants to be fixed...

> 
> Including my updated, tested code for completeness.
> Note I also cleaned up the device registration a little by
> using a different platform_device_register_ call and removing fields
> in the struct uio_info that get filled in by uio_pdrv automatically.

If you want to have that included in the mainline, please choose a more
descriptive name than "myfpga" and send a proper patch.

Thanks,
Hans

> 
> -Kevin
> 
> # lsuio -m -v
> uio0: name=uio_myfpga, version=0.1, events=0
>         map[0]: addr=0xD0000000, size=262144, mmap test: OK
>         Device attributes:
>         uevent=DRIVER=uio_pdrv
>         modalias=platform:uio_pdrv
> 
> ------Kernelspace------
> #include <linux/platform_device.h>
> #include <linux/uio_driver.h>
> #include <linux/module.h>
> 
> #define MYFPGA_BASE     0xd0000000 // 3G
> #define MYFPGA_SIZE     0x00040000 // 256k
> 
> static struct resource myfpga_resources[] = {
>     {
>         .start = MYFPGA_BASE,
>         .end   = MYFPGA_BASE + MYFPGA_SIZE - 1,
>         .name  = "myfpga",
>         .flags = IORESOURCE_MEM
>     }
> };
> 
> static struct uio_info myfpga_uio_info = {
>    .name = "uio_myfpga",
>    .version = "0.1",
> };
> 
> static struct platform_device *myfpga_uio_pdev;
> 
> static int __init myfpga_init(void)
> {
>     myfpga_uio_pdev = platform_device_register_resndata (NULL,
>                                                          "uio_pdrv",
>                                                          -1,
>                                                          myfpga_resources,
>                                                          1,
>                                                          &myfpga_uio_info,
>                                                          sizeof(struct uio_info)
>                                                         );
>     if (IS_ERR(myfpga_uio_pdev)) {
>         return PTR_ERR(myfpga_uio_pdev);
>     }
> 
>     return 0;
> }
> 
> static void __exit myfpga_exit(void)
> {
>     platform_device_unregister(myfpga_uio_pdev);
> }
> 
> module_init(myfpga_init);
> module_exit(myfpga_exit);
> 
> ------Userspace-------
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <sys/mman.h>
> #include <sys/stat.h>
> 
> #include <dirent.h>
> #include <string.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <fcntl.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <stdint.h>
> 
> #define MYFPGA_BASE     0xd0000000 // 3G
> #define MYFPGA_SIZE     0x00040000 // 256k
> #define MYFPGA_MAP_NUM  0 // First and only defined map
> 
> #define BIT32(n) (1 << (n))
> 
> /* Use mmap()'ped address "iomem", not physical MYFPGA address */
> #define MYFPGA_REG(iomem) (volatile uint32_t*)(iomem + 0x8) // Third 32-bit reg
> 
> int main (int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>     int fd;
>     void *iomem;
>     fd = open("/dev/uio0", O_RDWR|O_SYNC);
>     if (fd < 0) {
>         printf("failed to open /dev/uio0, quitting\n");
>         return -1;
>     }
>     /* Note offset has a special meaning with uio devices */
>     iomem = mmap(NULL, MYFPGA_SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd,
>                  MYFPGA_MAP_NUM * getpagesize());
>     if (iomem == MAP_FAILED) {
>         printf("mmap failed, quitting\n");
>         close(fd);
>         return -2;
>     }
> 
>     /* Set bit 5 of MYFPGA_REG register */
>     *MYFPGA_REG(iomem) |= BIT32(5);
> 
>     munmap(iomem, MYFPGA_SIZE);
>     close(fd);
>     return 0;
> }
>  
> 
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