Thank you for your answer. Is there a way to get the virtual address by traversing the pgd->pte->page hierarchy? I'm not sure I can use the phys_to_virt() function.
Thanks, Mohammad On Feb 7, 2016 16:43, "Mike Krinkin" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 04:24:08PM -0500, Mohammad A Khasawneh wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I am attempting to dump the page table of a process in terms of virtual > > addresses and the corresponding physical addresses. I am looking for > > information whether the pointers I am using are correct for this purpose: > > > > 1. Can I say that pte_page(pte_t) returns the virtual address of the page > > that the PTE points at? > > pte_page returns struct page pointer (virtual address of the struct page, > but > i suppose it's not the virtual address you need), it has nothing to do > with a > virtual address the pte corresponds to. > > > > > 2. can I say that page_to_phys(struct page) returns the physical address > of > > that same entry? > > page_to_phys returns physical address the struct page corresponds to, so > yes. > > > > > Thank you, > > Mohammad > > > _______________________________________________ > > Kernelnewbies mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > >
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