Memory Management

navid Rahimi rahimi.nv at gmail.com
Mon Feb 8 07:48:57 EST 2016


On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> Quoting sanjeev sharma <sanjeevsharmaengg at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would suggest you to go through the Linux Kernel book Robert Love which
>> is simpler to understand.
>
>    just a caution that that book is starting to show its age, even though
> it's still really, really good. the memory management is probably still
> fairly current, but i would compare all code snippets against the
> current kernel just in case.
>
> rday

I did it, last year (almost), comparing code snippet in the book
toward kernel source there (I think it was version 3.10 or maybe 4.0,
I don't remember precisely), the code/topics is still relevant.

I am not aware of the situation for 4.14 or newer version tough.

best wishes,
-navid



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