调试嵌入式Linux内核时,可能需要查看某个内核变量的值。/dev/kmem正好提供了访问内核虚拟内存的途径。现在的内核大都默认禁用了/dev/kmem,打开的方法是在 make menuconfig中选中 device drivers –> Character devices –>/dev/kmem virtual device support.
用 cat /proc/kallsyms | grep * 找到要查看的变量的地址, 这个地址作为本程序的输入参数。
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#define DEVKMEM "/dev/kmem"
#define PAGE_SIZE 0x1000
#define PAGE_MASK (~(PAGE_SIZE-1))
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
int fd;
char *mbase;
char read_buf[10];
unsigned int regAddr;
varAddr = strtoul(argv[1], 0, 16);
unsigned int ptr = varAddr & ~(PAGE_MASK);
fd = open(DEVKMEM, O_RDONLY);
if (fd == -1) {
perror("open");
exit(-1);
}
mbase = mmap(0,PAGE_SIZE,PROT_READ,MAP_SHARED,fd, (varAddr & PAGE_MASK));
if (mbase == MAP_FAILED) {
printf("map failed %s\n",strerror(errno));
}
printf("varAddr = 0x%X \n", varAddr);
printf("mapbase = 0x%X \n", (unsigned int)mbase);
printf("value = 0x%X \n",*(unsigned int*)(mbase+ptr));
close(fd);
munmap(mbase,PAGE_SIZE);
return 0;
}