"Kernel logical address" vs "Physical"

[ashish anand]

> Thank you for your reply! I am afraid that I am still confused...
>
> You say "actually when you refer to address mentioned 0xFA400000 in driver
> this address is already virtual address". The address 0xFA40000 is an
> address that I found in the documentation of the hardware vendor (Embedded
> Planet, the board is an CLLF_BW32), where there is no reference to any OS.
> The table containing the chip select mappings mentions that the "Control and
> Status register" is mapped at FA40. So I assume that 0xfA400000 is a pure
> physical address. Or is this a false assumption?
>
> When I write "char *p=0xFA40000;" it works.
> When I write "char *p=0xFA40000; p = ioremap(p,1);" I get another pointer
> and it works as well... I suppose this could not work when 0xFA40000 was not
> a physical address. When I use p=__va(p); or p=pa(p); it crashes


documentation is alright.
your documentation says that address 0xF4A00000 is a PHYSICAL address mapped for
 LED.but you will not be able to use this adress from processor without ioremapping.
in mmu of processor thee should be entry for virtual ----> physical addreses.

initially this is not , after using ioremap it is created there.

in your case you are getting virtual address = physical addres , probably because of
ioremap_base in the implementation of ioremap.
your physical address is above ioremap_base.
hence physical = virtual.

now path of your transaction from processor -> host bridge -> LED is clear.
this is all about your confusion.
I don't have any idea about your specific board.

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