Linking a L4 library with a L4Linux app?

[Frank Mehnert]

On Thursday 24 February 2005 15:26, Leon Brits wrote:
> Thanks - It works!!!

Fine.

> > But be aware that, as
> > Adam said, the Linux server is not aware of memory from external data-
> > spaces. So read/write syscalls don't work with this memory. To use these
>
> So as long as only my Linux app/kernel module accesses the data all is
> fine but to make it available to another Linux app I need to copy it to
> Linux allocated memory. Is this correct?

No. As long as your Linux application accesses the data, all is fine.

> > you had to use double buffering.
>
> What is double buffering? [The last time I heard this term was with
> graphics device drivers]

Do NOT try to this:

- create a dataspace
- attach it with l4rm_attach from emul_l4rm.c, you get address ADDR
- read(..., ADDR, ...)

because the Linux kernel is located in a separate address space and
it does not _see_ that memory. If you try this you will only get
SEGFAULTS. 

Double buffering is this:

  static char buf[...];
  int len;

  len = read(..., buf, ...);
  /* make sure that len <= sizeof(buf)
  memcpy(ADDR, buf, len);

Frank
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