Re: Walking all the physical memory in an x86 system

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Tue Nov 30 2004 - 10:57:01 EST


> I've written a 2.4 kernel module where I'm trying to walk and
>record all of the physical memory contents in an x86 system. I have the
>following code fragment that does it but I suspect I'm missing a portion
>of the memory:
>
>Is there a better way to record all of the contents of physical memory
>since what I have above doesn't seem to get everything?

Maybe something userspace based?

dd_rescue /dev/mem copyofmem



Jan Engelhardt
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