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| | After examining the virtual address layout of a process, we turn to the kernel and its mechanisms for managing user memory. Here is gonzo again: Linux processes are implemented in the kernel as insta
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| | This post details my adventures with the Linux virtual memory subsystem, and my discovery of a creative way to taunt the OOM (out of memory) killer by accumulating memory in the kernel, rather than in userspace. Keep reading and you'll learn: Internal details of the Linux kernel's demand paging implementation How to exploit virtual memory [...]
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| | In the previous post we saw how the memory management unit (MMU) uses page tables to translate virtual addresses into physical ones. We will now consider the various features that such a translation enables in an operating system. In the discussion below, it is important to remember that the granularity of translation is a single...
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| Architecture is an important asset for good programming and the notion of "pattern" is here to help us apply already trusted code architecture solutions to common problems. Jason McDonald has done a wonderful job to group some of them in a document that should be useful to most software developers. Go to his blog to