On 3/22/17, Stefan Tatschner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hallo everybody, > > currently I am trying to understand the internal memory allocation > mechanisms of the kernel. I am particularly interested in the > translation of virtual memory addresses to physical addresses. > Additionally, how are these physical addresses located in the relevant > RAM Modules? I have read that even in the kernel there are "virtual" > physical addresses... Could somebody give me some pointers to further > literature about this topic?
https://www.kernel.org/doc/gorman/pdf/understand.pdf > > During my research, I discovered the /proc/pid/pagemap file [1]. I find > the documentation a bit sparse and I do not understand how I can use > this file properly. If somebody could share some examples, that would be > great! > > Regards, > Stefan > > [1]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > -- Regards / Mit besten Grüßen, Denis _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
