From: kernelnewbies-bounces@kernelnewbies.org [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounces@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