Need help understanding memory models, cpu modes and address translation

Joel A Fernandes agnel.joel at gmail.com
Wed Jul 13 22:46:41 EDT 2011


On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Mulyadi Santosa
<mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 14:33, Vaibhav Jain <vjoss197 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am eager to understand the basics of Memory models  (flat, segmented etc)
>> , CPU modes (real,protected)
>> and address translation (physical to logical etc.) and how all of them work
>> together.
>
> maybe something like this?
>
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/KernelAnalysis-HOWTO.html

This should nail it :)

http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/how-the-kernel-manages-your-memory
http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/anatomy-of-a-program-in-memory

Thanks,
Joel



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