October 2000
Intermediate to advanced
704 pages
18h 44m
English
In the last chapter, we looked mostly at process address space and process memory, but the kernel also needs memory to run the operating system. Kernel memory is required for the kernel text, kernel data, and kernel data structures. In this chapter, we look at what kernel memory is used for, what the kernel virtual address space looks like, and how kernel memory is allocated and managed.
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