Re: Accessing Invalid Physical Address

2010-12-16 Thread Patrikas Kugrinas
Hi, Let me guess - kernel is running a privileged code therefore you don't get it trapped by General Protection #GP exception as you would be when running in user ring. Anyway have you tried to experiment with other addresses ? I think you're referring to a logical address here since paging is inv

Accessing Invalid Physical Address

2010-12-15 Thread Luis Useche
Hi Guys, This is not very related to OpenBSD but perhaps somebody can help me from this list. I need to find what happen when an invalid physical address is accessed from the kernel for a small project I am doing. My guess is that it will trigger some kind of exception trapped by the kernel. I tr