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@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ In my view, memory management is one of the most complex part of the linux kerne
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As intel manual says:
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-Paging provides a mech-anism for implementing a conventional demand-paged, virtual-memory system where sections of a program’s execution environment are mapped into physical memory as needed.
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+Paging provides a mech-anism for implementing a conventional demand-paged,
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+virtual-memory system where sections of a program’s execution environment are
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+mapped into physical memory as needed.
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So... I will try to explain how paging works in theory in this post. Of course it will be closely related with the linux kernel for `x86_64`, but we will not go into deep details (at least in this post).
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