From: kernelnewbies-boun...@kernelnewbies.org 
[mailto:kernelnewbies-boun...@kernelnewbies.org] On Behalf Of Kenneth Adam 
Miller
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 12:14 PM
To: Kernelnewbies
Subject: Query Hard Memory Addresses

So, previously it was discussed that /dev/mem could be used to mmap a specific 
hardware memory into a process. Now I need to unit test some userland code that 
does exactly that, but I need to make sure that the unit test selects a small 
page that is always free in kernel land. How can I query mem to just grab the 
location of a free page?

(my development setup is different from my other deployment; in deployment 
these values are hard coded, in development they occur on a qemu emulator)

I suppose it might work to write a kernel module that allocates a page in its 
init routine and then provides the address to user space via a /proc entry.

Jeff Haran
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