Need help understanding memory models, cpu modes and address translation

[Kaustubh Ashtekar]

I think you should first read the book
Operating System Concepts by  Silberschatz Galvin.

It is a general book on OS concepts and will help you gain understanding of
these concepts.

-Kaustubh

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Vaibhav Jain <vjoss197 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks a lot for the resources! I just had a cursory look at them and could
> see that they explain virtual memory and
> address translation in depth. Just wanted to ask if they explain the
> concepts Memory models (flat, segmented ) and cpu modes
> (real,protected) equally well. I am more confused about
> these concepts.
>
> Thanks
> Vaibhav Jain
>
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar <
> chambilkethakur at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>   On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Jeff Haran <jharan at bytemobile.com>wrote:
>>
>>>  ** **
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> *From:* kernelnewbies-bounces at kernelnewbies.org [mailto:
>>> kernelnewbies-bounces at kernelnewbies.org] *On Behalf Of *Vaibhav Jain
>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 13, 2011 1:38 AM
>>> *To:* Daniel Baluta
>>> *Cc:* kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org
>>> *Subject:* Re: Need help understanding memory models,cpu modes and
>>> address translation****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the link.I really appreciate but I need something more basic
>>> and something that
>>> explains these concepts from a broader perspective and not in the context
>>> of a
>>> particular cpu architecture.Please send me more such links if you come
>>> across any.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Vaibhav Jain****
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta 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. I am very confused
>>> > about this and would really appreciate if someone could provide good
>>> > references to these topics.****
>>>
>>> You may find useful information inside i366 Programmers Manual.
>>> Anyhow, reading materials is the first step in understanding these
>>> concepts. You will have to actually  read/write/debug pieces of code
>>> related to them.
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> Daniel.
>>>
>>> [1] pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2010/readings/i386.pdf****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> You might want to try “Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager” by
>>> Mel Gorman. It’s freely available on the web.****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> It’s Linux specific, but since Linux needs to run on a multitude of
>>> different processors with different memory management hardware, the approach
>>> it takes to doing so in inherently broad.****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> A lot of basic concepts can be learnt from JIm Turley's book on 8086
>> Other book is modern operating systems by Tanenbaum which explains
>> everything in much detail with  code snippets.
>>
>>
>>
>
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