Re: Figuring out physical memory regions from a kernel module

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Wed Dec 08 2004 - 13:05:04 EST


On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 09:44, Hanson, Jonathan M wrote:
> Is there a reliable way to tell from a kernel module (currently
> written for 2.4 but will need to work under 2.6 in the future) which
> regions of physical memory are actually available for the kernel and
> processes to use?

Is this a rehashing of the "Walking all the physical memory in an x86
system" thread? :)

Why don't you just tell us what you're actually trying to do in your
module. There's probably a better way.

-- Dave

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