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To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
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Subject: Re: Walking all the physical memory in an x86 system
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>	I've written a 2.4 kernel module where I'm trying to walk and
>>record all of the physical memory contents in an x86 system. I have the
>>following code fragment that does it but I suspect I'm missing a portion
>>of the memory:
>>
>>Is there a better way to record all of the contents of physical memory
>>since what I have above doesn't seem to get everything?
> 
> 
> Maybe something userspace based?
> 
> dd_rescue /dev/mem copyofmem

Doesn't equate to a power of 2
(nor does `grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo`)

Pádraig.