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[WaiLUG] userspace and kernel space memory experiment

phil pwork at contact.net.nz
Mon Jan 2 08:59:41 NZDT 2006


On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 21:13 +1300, John wrote:
> Hi guys, I have been trying to figure out how the Linux Memory
> management system works,
> I tried to write a small C program that is in a sleep loop waking up
> every 5 secs or so checking the value
> of a variable (it first prints out is userspace virtual address of the
> variable), I then wrote a module that tries
> to alter that memory location from kernel space. I have been doing
> this by traversing the pgd , pmd and pte arrays
> and have come to the conclusion I have know Idea what I am doing :-)
> and idea's on how this could be done ??
>  
>  
> John Lynch
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Hi 
would love to help but also no idea what i am doing (tm)
perhaps try the nzlug

cheers
Phil




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