ARM11 and flushing cashes in a driver

fsl_user · *nix forums beginner Joined: 07 Oct 2005 Posts: 3

Hi,

I'm having a driver, which wants to use and share some physical memory
with an application.

1.) What I implemented:
the mmap-implementation of my driver returns a virtual address for a
physical adress known by the driver (cacheable and bufferable) to the
application.

2.) The application may read / write modify the buffer.

3.) at a later moment the driver wants to be sure, that the buffer is
entirely flushed before doing his work.

What function call do I have to do?

More info:

- Linux: 2.6.10
- Processor: ARM11
- driver knows physical address and the virtual address given to the
application
- buffer is cachaeble and bufferable

DRIVER CODE
==========================================
The mmap function without error checking:
my_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
struct my_device *dev = file->private_data;
unsigned long start = vma->vm_start;
unsigned long size = vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start;
vout_data *vout = video_get_drvdata(dev);

pgprot_t my_prot;
my_prot= pgprot_noncached(PAGE_SHARED);
if (remap_pfn_range(vma, start, vma->vm_pgoff, size, my_prot));
return 0;
}

APPLICATION CODE
=====================================================
the application code (pseudo code):

int fd= open(dev_name);
char *buf = mmap (NULL, length,
PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED,
fd, offset);

dosomething_with(buf);

// following ioctl cannot be split
ioctl(fd, DO_SOMETHING_FLUSH_AND_DO_SOMETHING_MORE, param);

thanks for any help

nsp

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