How can I test if a physical address is already mapped or not.

StephanT stman937-linewbie at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 18 16:58:03 EDT 2011


> unsigned long    * const pReg = (unsigned long*) 0XC0000000 ;

> 
> printk( KERN_INFO"** read (%p) %08lX.\n", pReg, *pReg) ;

On any virtual memory processor I am aware of, the above will cause pReg to contain a virtual address, not a physical address.



Jeff,

I do not follow you... Could you, please be more explicit.

Thanks.




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