Operating Systems: Concurrent and Distributed Software Design

Chapter 5. Memory management

5.1 Memory management

5.2 The memory hierarchy

5.3 The address space of a process

5.4 Segmented virtual memory

5.5 Paged virtual memory

5.6 Combining segmentation and paging

5.7 Operating system data structures

5.8 An example of a memory management unit (MMU)

5.9 Memory management in system design

5.10 Summary

One of the main functions of the operating system is to supply the resources that applications need during their execution. In Chapter 4 we saw how this can be done for CPU processing time by using a scheduler to switch between processes, giving each the illusion of continuous execution. In this chapter we consider the other main physical resource associated with process execution: the memory used to hold its code and ...