* How to examine physical address content in Linux
@ 2005-01-22 9:30 Kai-Yuan Ho
2005-01-22 9:53 ` Måns Rullgård
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From: Kai-Yuan Ho @ 2005-01-22 9:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
Dear all:
As I know , the address we can see are virtual address.
How can I examine physical address content in Linux?
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* Re: How to examine physical address content in Linux
2005-01-22 9:30 How to examine physical address content in Linux Kai-Yuan Ho
@ 2005-01-22 9:53 ` Måns Rullgård
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From: Måns Rullgård @ 2005-01-22 9:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
"Kai-Yuan Ho" <mr934318@cs.nthu.edu.tw> writes:
> Dear all:
> As I know , the address we can see are virtual address.
> How can I examine physical address content in Linux?
If you want to look at a specific physical address, you can read (or
mmap) /dev/mem, if you are root. Be careful though, even reading
certain addresses will crash your computer.
If you want the virtual to physical mapping for your process, there is
no simple way.
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Måns Rullgård
mru@inprovide.com
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