Reading the GDT in kernel space?

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Hi,

I'm trying to read & display the GDT contents in kernel space. Is this
permissible? I used the "sgdt" assembly instruction to load the GDT
register, and found out the address & length of GDT from that (It is
"0000c248") . Is this the physical or the virtual address?

I'm now trying to print out the contents of GDT. I am able to print
this address. BUt the moment I try to deference it, the kernel OOPS. I
understand that this is because the address is not in kernel virtual
address space (3GB). I tried using "ioremap" but it always returns
NULL. Any ideas?

Thanks in Advance,

Rajat

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