RE: Walking all the physical memory in an x86 system

[Hanson, Jonathan M]

-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Engelhardt [mailto:jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 8:55 AM
To: Hanson, Jonathan M
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Walking all the physical memory in an x86 system

>	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


[Jon M. Hanson] I'm not sure what dd_rescue is as I've never heard of
it. However, I don't think such an operation can be done from userspace
because I need the physical addresses of memory not the virtual ones.

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