* Luck, Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-14 23:10]: > But there isn't a user-mode accessible way to convert them to > physical addresses.
Well, there is a way (indirectly). Because there's /dev/mem, any userspace program can expose the page tables of the kernel. If you have debugging information of the kernel available, you can use the crash utility (http://people.redhat.com/~anderson/) which is normally used to analyse dump files in the running system. $ crash -s crash> vtop 0xa00000020b520000 VIRTUAL PHYSICAL a00000020b520000 a3078494000 PAGE DIRECTORY: a000000100708000 PGD: a000000100708000 => 30030ac000 PUD: e0000030030ac000 => 3006d54000 PMD: e000003006d54828 => 63003f44000 PTE: e000063003f46a40 => 100a3078494661 PAGE: a3078494000 PTE PHYSICAL FLAGS 100a3078494661 a3078494000 (P|MA_WB|PL_0|AR_RWX|A|D|ED) PAGE PHYSICAL MAPPING INDEX CNT FLAGS a0007ffb2ffcc018 a3078494000 ------- ----- 0 500000000000000 Of course it may be easier to use a simple kernel module. ;-) Thanks, Bernhard - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
