Re: How to examine physical address content in Linux

[Måns Rullgård]

"Kai-Yuan Ho" <mr934318@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Dear all:
> As I know , the address we can see are virtual address.
> How can I examine physical address content in Linux?

If you want to look at a specific physical address, you can read (or
mmap) /dev/mem, if you are root.  Be careful though, even reading
certain addresses will crash your computer.

If you want the virtual to physical mapping for your process, there is
no simple way.

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Måns Rullgård
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