cat /dev/mem, cat /dev/ram ?

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In trying to track down potential ram issues, I was messing around with different devices.  I have a ram chip, 32meg on the bus of a at91rm9200.

 

Is there a way to view the ram memory?  When I try cat /dev/mem, I get a bad virtual address and segmentation fault.

 

When I try a cat /dev/ram0 , the cursor will blink like it is working and I can see that the kernel hasn’t crashed.  Eventually, it fails as well, but on a null virtual address.  I have the output below and have cut it short so as to not include too much.  Can someone tell me if this is normal and if it isn’t, what could be the cause of it (setup issue with kernel etc).  I am running 2.6.20, with the AT91 patches.

 

# cat /dev/ram0

<1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000

[  459.880000] pgd = c1f5c000

[  459.880000] [00000000] *pgd=21f44031, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000

[  459.880000] Internal error: Oops: 17 [#2]

[  459.880000] Modules linked in:

[  459.880000] CPU: 0

[  459.880000] PC is at __wake_up_common+0x30/0xbc

[  459.880000] LR is at __wake_up+0x40/0x6c

[  459.880000] pc : [<c003f460>]    lr : [<c00404e4>]    Not tainted

[  459.880000] sp : c1f5bcf0  ip : c1f5bd20  fp : c1f5bd1c

[  459.880000] r10: 00000003  r9 : c1f5bd40  r8 : 00000000

[  459.880000] r7 : 00000001  r6 : c0000070  r5 : a0000013  r4 : c1f5a000

[  459.880000] r3 : 00000000  r2 : 00000001  r1 : fffffff4  r0 : 00000000

[  459.880000] Flags: nzcv  IRQs off  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  Segment user

[  459.880000] Control: C000717F

[  459.880000] Table: 21F5C000  DAC: 00000015

[  459.880000] Process cat (pid: 256, stack limit = 0xc1f5a258)

[  459.880000] Stack: (0xc1f5bcf0 to 0xc1f5c000)

[  459.880000] bce0:                                     0000002c c1f5a000 a0000

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