linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Make MTD chardev mmap available under some circumstances

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Date:	Tue, 5 Sep 2006 20:00:06 -0500
From:	"Josh Boyer" <jwboyer@...il.com>
To:	"David Howells" <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	dwmw2@...radead.org, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make MTD chardev mmap available under some circumstances

On 9/5/06, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> Make it possible to mmap MTD chardevs directly or by copy on a NOMMU system.

Why would you want to do this?  I'm just curious.


> +/*
> + * Allow NOMMU mmap() to directly map the device (if not NULL)
> + * - return the address to which the offset maps
> + * - return -ENOSYS to indicate refusal to do the mapping

Where do you actually do the -ENOSYS part?  I think that comment
belongs to the actual mtd_get_unmapped_area call in mtdchar.c, no?

> +/*
> + * try to determine where a shared mapping can be made
> + * - only supported for NOMMU at the moment (MMU can't doesn't copy private
> + *   mappings)
> + */
> +#ifndef CONFIG_MMU
> +static unsigned long mtd_get_unmapped_area(struct file *file,
> +                                          unsigned long addr,
> +                                          unsigned long len,
> +                                          unsigned long pgoff,
> +                                          unsigned long flags)
> +{
> +       struct mtd_file_info *mfi = file->private_data;
> +       struct mtd_info *mtd = mfi->mtd;
> +
> +       if (mtd->get_unmapped_area) {
> +               unsigned long offset;
> +
> +               if (addr != 0)
> +                       return (unsigned long) -EINVAL;
> +
> +               if (len > mtd->size || pgoff >= (mtd->size >> PAGE_SHIFT))
> +                       return (unsigned long) -EINVAL;
> +
> +               offset = pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT;
> +               if (offset > mtd->size - len)
> +                       return (unsigned long) -EINVAL;
> +
> +               return mtd->get_unmapped_area(mtd, len, offset, flags);
> +       }
> +
> +       /* can't map directly */
> +       return (unsigned long) -ENOSYS;
> +}
> +#endif

Could we do something like:

#else
#define mtd_get_unmapped_area (NULL);

which would prevent the ugly ifdef in the mtd_fops structure?

>  static struct file_operations mtd_fops = {
>         .owner          = THIS_MODULE,
>         .llseek         = mtd_lseek,
> @@ -771,6 +864,10 @@ static struct file_operations mtd_fops =
>         .ioctl          = mtd_ioctl,
>         .open           = mtd_open,
>         .release        = mtd_close,
> +       .mmap           = mtd_mmap,
> +#ifndef CONFIG_MMU
> +       .get_unmapped_area = mtd_get_unmapped_area,
> +#endif

See above.


josh
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