Linux Kernel Architecture

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Chapter 4: Virtual Process Memory


linear and nonlinear memory mappings. Besides, theyare connected with paging, which helps to manage
the connection between physical and virtual memory.

Since the virtual address space of each userland process is different but the virtual address space portion
of the kernel always remains the same, some effort is required to exchange data between both, and I have
introduced you to the mechanisms required for this purpose.
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