I have a fix for this problem. In the file
include/linux/mm.h
in the inline function do_mmap(), change
if ((offset + PAGE_ALIGN(len)) < offset)
to
if ((offset + PAGE_ALIGN(len)-1) < offset)
-Dave
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Dave Ashley wrote:
> I'm using linux on an embedded system based on the 2.4.2 kernel. There
> is a flash rom at physical address FFE00000 of 2 megabytes size. I have
> a flash utility that uses mmap() on /dev/mem, but I can't call it with
> offset 0xffe00000, size 0x00200000, I must call it with size
> 0x001ff000 (1 page size less than the real size). I figure this is because
> the end address has wrapped around to 0 and this messes up the system.
>
> This should work, the memory is there. But I can't access that last page.
>
> BTW the cpu is a ppc 8260 (603e core).
>
> -Dave
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