Managing Mapping Accesses

The device driver is notified when a user process accesses an address in the memory-mapped region that does not have valid mapping translations. When the access event occurs, the mapping translations of the process that currently has access to the device must be invalidated. The device context of the process requesting access to the device must be restored, and the translations of the mapping of the process requesting access must be validated.

The functions devmap_load(9F) and devmap_unload(9F) are used to validate and invalidate mapping translations.

devmap_load() Entry Point

The syntax for devmap_load(9F) is:

int devmap_load(devmap_cookie_t handle, offset_t offset,
    size_t len, uint_t type, uint_t rw);

devmap_load() validates the mapping translations for the pages of the mapping specified by handle,offset, and len. By validating the mapping translations for these pages, the driver is telling the system not to intercept accesses to these pages of the mapping and to allow accesses to proceed without notifying the device driver.

devmap_load() must be called with the offset and the handle of the mapping that generated the access event for the access to complete. If devmap_load(9F) is not called on this handle, the mapping translations will not be validated, and the process will receive a SIGBUS.

devmap_unload() Entry Point

The syntax for devmap_unload(9F) is:

    int devmap_unload(devmap_cookie_t handle, offset_t offset,
         size_t len);

devmap_unload() invalidates the mapping translations for the pages of the mapping specified by handle, offset, and len. By invalidating the mapping translations for these pages, the device driver is telling the system to intercept accesses to these pages of the mapping and notify the device driver the next time these pages of the mapping are accessed by calling the devmap_access(9E) entry point.

For both functions, requests affect the entire page containing the offset and all pages up to and including the entire page containing the last byte, as indicated by offset + len. The device driver must ensure that for each page of device memory being mapped only one process has valid translations at any one time.

Both functions return zero if they are successful. If, however, there was an error in validating or invalidating the mapping translations, that error is returned to the device driver. The device driver must return this error to the system.