works:
- userspace app like Xfbdev mmaps framebuffer
-- deferred IO and driver sets up nopage and page_mkwrite handlers
+- deferred IO and driver sets up fault and page_mkwrite handlers
- userspace app tries to write to mmaped vaddress
-- we get pagefault and reach nopage handler
-- nopage handler finds and returns physical page
+- we get pagefault and reach fault handler
+- fault handler finds and returns physical page
- we get page_mkwrite where we add this page to a list
- schedule a workqueue task to be run after a delay
- app continues writing to that page with no additional cost. this is
#include <linux/pagemap.h>
/* this is to find and return the vmalloc-ed fb pages */
-static struct page* fb_deferred_io_nopage(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
- unsigned long vaddr, int *type)
+static int fb_deferred_io_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ struct vm_fault *vmf)
{
unsigned long offset;
struct page *page;
/* info->screen_base is in System RAM */
void *screen_base = (void __force *) info->screen_base;
- offset = (vaddr - vma->vm_start) + (vma->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT);
+ offset = vmf->pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT;
if (offset >= info->fix.smem_len)
- return NOPAGE_SIGBUS;
+ return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
page = vmalloc_to_page(screen_base + offset);
if (!page)
- return NOPAGE_OOM;
+ return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
get_page(page);
- if (type)
- *type = VM_FAULT_MINOR;
- return page;
+ vmf->page = page;
+ return 0;
}
int fb_deferred_io_fsync(struct file *file, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync)
}
static struct vm_operations_struct fb_deferred_io_vm_ops = {
- .nopage = fb_deferred_io_nopage,
+ .fault = fb_deferred_io_fault,
.page_mkwrite = fb_deferred_io_mkwrite,
};