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Reputation: 1093

How to get the physical address of the associated data from a struct page?

Let's say we've got a struct page from the address space of a page cached file.

How could we get the starting physical address of the 4KB data from this struct page?

I suppose there should be something like the data pointer inside struct sk_buff, but I didn't find it.

EDIT

Thanks Mat and llya for the answers.

After looking at the answers, I think the first problem is to identify whether the struct page is located in ZONE_NORMAL or ZONE_HIGHMEM.

During a file I/O, when we don't find the cached page, we will at first allocate a new page using page_cache_alloc_cold(). page_cache_alloc_cold() will finally calls alloc_pages() which looks like it will use the ZONE_HIGHMEM (which in x86, is the kernel memory area starting at PAGE_OFFSET+896M) for its job.

So

Please correct.

Upvotes: 8

Views: 2654

Answers (1)

Ilya Matveychikov
Ilya Matveychikov

Reputation: 4024

You need to map a page into the kernel memory as follows:

void * mapping = kmap_atomic(page, KM_USER0);
// work with mapping...
kunmap_atomic(mapping, KM_USER0);

This trick is required as there is a HighMemory concept in Linux (see this link for ex.).

UPD: You can use kmap instead of kmap_atomic in non-atomic contexts.

Upvotes: 3

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