RE: Query Hard Memory Addresses

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From: kernelnewbies-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kenneth Adam Miller
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 12:14 PM
To: Kernelnewbies
Subject: Query Hard Memory Addresses

 

So, previously it was discussed that /dev/mem could be used to mmap a specific hardware memory into a process. Now I need to unit test some userland code that does exactly that, but I need to make sure that the unit test selects a small page that is always free in kernel land. How can I query mem to just grab the location of a free page?

 

(my development setup is different from my other deployment; in deployment these values are hard coded, in development they occur on a qemu emulator)

 

I suppose it might work to write a kernel module that allocates a page in its init routine and then provides the address to user space via a /proc entry.

 

Jeff Haran

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