Re: How to map a page with userland program?

John Baldwin wrote:
On Friday 15 September 2006 11:21, LI Xin wrote:
John Baldwin wrote:
On Friday 15 September 2006 10:26, LI Xin wrote:
Dear folks,

Is there a continent and MI way to map a kernel page into userland address space under the same virtual address? It seems that this can be implemented through some routines in MD part of pmap, but is it possible to use higher level VM routines to do the job?
Not to the same userland virtual address. Why do you need the same
virtual address anyway? If it's for pointers use offsets relative to
the start of the page instead.
That would make it easier to implement some sort of VSYSCALL, which is in fact executed in userland. Or, is there any better way? :-)

If you want to stick code in the page, make the code PIC, the same as is done for shared libraries. Alternatively, if you wanted to be very, very evil and can have the page read-only once it is initialized, flip the user/supervisor bit in the kernel PTE for that page such that it is treated as a user page rather than a kernel page (even though it's in KVA), and then userland processes can access that page via it's kernel VA. Making the code PIC would probably be better though.

I see... So, what if I want to make some data available to userland? Is flipping the user/supervisor bit the only way?

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij@xxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.delphij.net/
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