How can a thread map memory to itself

Björn Döbel doebel at os.inf.tu-dresden.de
Tue Aug 19 18:41:35 CEST 2014


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On 19.08.2014 18:12, Yuxin Ren wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I want to do cap/mem mapping without IPC to another thread. In
> particular, I want a thread to map its own memory or capability to 
> itself. How can I achieve this?


You need a capability to the respective task for this. You can always
obtain a capability to your own task object using L4Re::This_task.

With this task capability you can then use the task::map() operation
to map capabilities or memory pages to the respective task.

Bjoern
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