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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de), |
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| 23 | .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 16:59:10 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) | |
| 24 | .TH MEM 4 1992-11-21 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" | |
| 25 | .SH NAME | |
| 26 | mem, kmem, port \- system memory, kernel memory and system ports | |
| 27 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| e8046fd0 | 28 | \fBmem\fP is a character device file |
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29 | that is an image of the main memory of the computer. |
| 30 | It may be used, for example, to examine (and even patch) the system. | |
| fea681da | 31 | .LP |
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32 | Byte addresses in |
| 33 | .B mem | |
| e8046fd0 | 34 | are interpreted as physical memory addresses. |
| c382a365 | 35 | References to nonexistent locations cause errors to be returned. |
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36 | .LP |
| 37 | Examining and patching is likely to lead to unexpected results | |
| 38 | when read-only or write-only bits are present. | |
| 39 | .LP | |
| 40 | It is typically created by: | |
| 41 | .RS | |
| 42 | .sp | |
| 4d9b6984 | 43 | mknod \-m 660 /dev/mem c 1 1 |
| fea681da | 44 | .br |
| 9df0bd1d | 45 | chown root:kmem /dev/mem |
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46 | .RE |
| 47 | .LP | |
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48 | The file |
| 49 | .B kmem | |
| 50 | is the same as | |
| 51 | .BR mem , | |
| e8046fd0 | 52 | except that the kernel virtual memory |
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53 | rather than physical memory is accessed. |
| 54 | .LP | |
| 55 | It is typically created by: | |
| 56 | .RS | |
| 57 | .sp | |
| 4d9b6984 | 58 | mknod \-m 640 /dev/kmem c 1 2 |
| fea681da | 59 | .br |
| 9df0bd1d | 60 | chown root:kmem /dev/kmem |
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61 | .RE |
| 62 | .LP | |
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63 | \fBport\fP is similar to |
| 64 | .BR mem , | |
| a28e26a1 | 65 | but the I/O ports are accessed. |
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66 | .LP |
| 67 | It is typically created by: | |
| 68 | .RS | |
| 69 | .sp | |
| 4d9b6984 | 70 | mknod \-m 660 /dev/port c 1 4 |
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71 | .br |
| 72 | chown root:mem /dev/port | |
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73 | .RE |
| 74 | .SH FILES | |
| 75 | .I /dev/mem | |
| 76 | .br | |
| 77 | .I /dev/kmem | |
| 78 | .br | |
| 79 | .I /dev/port | |
| 47297adb | 80 | .SH SEE ALSO |
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81 | .BR chown (1), |
| 82 | .BR mknod (1), | |
| 83 | .BR ioperm (2) |