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Linux Kernel Programming Part 2 - Char Device Drivers and Kernel Synchronization

You're reading from   Linux Kernel Programming Part 2 - Char Device Drivers and Kernel Synchronization Create user-kernel interfaces, work with peripheral I/O, and handle hardware interrupts

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801079518
Length 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kaiwan N. Billimoria Kaiwan N. Billimoria
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Character Device Driver Basics
2. Writing a Simple misc Character Device Driver FREE CHAPTER 3. User-Kernel Communication Pathways 4. Working with Hardware I/O Memory 5. Handling Hardware Interrupts 6. Working with Kernel Timers, Threads, and Workqueues 7. Section 2: Delving Deeper
8. Kernel Synchronization - Part 1 9. Kernel Synchronization - Part 2 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Looking up the new mapping via /proc/iomem

Once you have performed a mapping (via one of the just-covered [devm_]ioremap*()APIs), it can actually be seen via the read-only pseudo-file; that is, /proc/iomem. The reality is that a new entry under /proc/iomem is generated when you successfully call request_mem_region(). Viewing it requires root access (more correctly, you can view it as non-root but will only see all the addresses as 0; this is for security purposes). So, let's take a look at this on our trusty x86_64 Ubuntu guest VM. In the following output, due to lack of space and for clarity, we'll show it partially truncated:

$ sudo cat /proc/iomem 
[sudo] password for llkd:
00000000-00000fff : Reserved
00001000-0009fbff : System RAM
0009fc00-0009ffff : Reserved
000a0000-000bffff : PCI Bus 0000:00
000c0000-000c7fff : Video ROM
000e2000-000ef3ff : Adapter ROM
000f0000-000fffff : Reserved
000f0000-000fffff : System ROM
00100000-3ffeffff : System RAM
18800000-194031d0...
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