Hi Everyone:
I am trying to use mmap in user space to read the physical memory where 'mem_map' starts. It's an array that contains all the physical pages. This is a i386 machine running 3.0 kernel.
The code is like this:
Code:
....
//define page size
//
#define PAGE_SIZE 0x1000 //4096 bytes
#define PAGE_MASK (PAGE_SIZE - 1)
....
/* open /dev/mem file*/
if((fd = open("/dev/mem", O_RDWR | O_SYNC)) == -1) {
printf("/dev/mem could not be opened.\n");
perror("open");
exit(1);
} else {
printf("/dev/mem opened.\n");
}
/* Map one page */
printf(" mem_map is at physical addr: 0x%x\n", mem_map_phy_addr);
map_base = mmap(0, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd, (mem_map_phy_addr & ~PAGE_MASK)); //mem_map_phy_addr is at 0x356f2000
if(map_base == (void *) -1) {
printf("Memory map failed. err num = %d\n",errno);
perror("mmap"); //failed here
} else {
printf("Memory mapped at address %p.\n", map_base);
}
The output is:
Code:
/dev/mem opened.
mem_map is at physical addr: 0x356f2000
Memory map failed. err num = 1
mmap: Operation not permitted
To be sure, I googled the problem and added the following line to my /etc/sysctl.conf file:
Code:
vm.mmap_min_addr = 0
But this doesn't work either.
Anyone knows why mem_map operation like this is not permitted and how I can get around it?
Thanks.
