arno/linux-insides
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides.git synced 2024-12-22 06:38:07 +00:00
Code Issues Releases Wiki Activity

Update Paging.md

Browse Source
This commit is contained in:
0xAX 2015-02-28 18:48:14 +06:00
parent 9f6b20778c
commit df3b0580a5
1 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

4
Theory/Paging.md
View File

@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ In my view, memory management is one of the most complex part of the linux kerne
As intel manual says:
```
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.
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.
```
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).