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alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes:

>
> > holding 8k Pixels and it sends an interrupt when it is half full. I
> > have tried to wake up the process in the interrupt handler, but this
> > wasn't reliable under high load (sometimes the wakeup took to long and
> > the FIFO overflowed). Now I would like to try reading half a FIFO
>
> You probably want to buffer the data in the kernel, then the mlock isnt
> a problem (its up to the user).

This brings us back to the problem of kmalloc()ing ca. 1MB reliably. I
prefer allocating the buffer in the ccd_open() rather than in
module_init(). And so far there is no way to tell kmalloc() to page
out a couple of user pages if memory is running low instead of
failing. vmalloc() works, but then you don't want page faults when
reading from the CCD.

> > worth of data from the card and copy it to the mlock()'d user buffer
> > directly in the interrupt handler. Is this possible at all, or do I
>
> Its 'entertaining'.

What do you mean by entertaining (I can see you grinning while typing
this...). Is there a fundamental reason why it wouldn't work?

> The ATM folks have played with this a bit. Another
> approach is to make the device mmap()able and map the kernel CCD buffer
> into user space.

What kind of kernel memory can you mmap() into user space?
kmalloc()'d? Has it to be GFP_DMA? vmalloc()'d? Static?
The CCD has 768*516 pixels with 16 bit each (792.576 bytes). So
kmalloc() doesn't cut it. If you want to mmap() something, it has to
be continuous, right?

> Alan
>

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