kmem - mapped kernel memory interface
The kmem character special device provides access to
mapped kernel memory.
Byte addresses in kmem are equivalent to mapped kernel
memory addresses. References to unmapped or user space
addresses will return an error. Write accesses to console
or PAL memory or to memory protected against writes will
also return an error.
Because memory is read and written in aligned quadwords
(eight contiguous bytes), writing fewer than all the bytes
in an aligned quadword is a read-modify-write operation
that is not protected against writes to the same quadword.
Device registers are accessed as aligned quadwords through
kmem.
The kmem file is not available as a memory mapped file.
/dev/kmem
mem(7)
kmem(7)
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