[Gllug] Writing my own system call

[Alain Williams]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:49:26AM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> I need to know the physical address of memory allocated from the heap in
> user space (this is for research, not because I am suggesting this is a
> sensible thing for anyone in the real world to be able to do) - I am
> researching/confirming phases of memory locality in the kernel.
> 
> As far as I can see the only way I will be able to do this is to write my
> own system call handle the return from __pa().
> 
> But, just to check - anyone know of a simpler way?

How about something new in /proc/self/ ?

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