<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi Pritam,<br><br></div>1) Yes, all 512RAM will be direct mapped to kernel address space IF the kernel have a 896MB direct mapping area.<br></div>Actually you can change the range of kernel direct mapping by the vmalloc=<size> in boot command line.<br>
</div>In 32-bit and 3:1 split configuration, kernel direct mapping area + vmalloc area is roughly 1G.<br><br></div>2) User space and kernel space can have different virtual addresses mapping to the same physical frame at the same time.<br>
<br></div>3) Direct mapped or fixed map or permanent map are describing kernel VIRTUAL address space, you can see the virtual memory<br>layout by 'dmesg'. When user space needs memory, the kernel allocates a free memory frame, and remaps the frame to user space. <br>
The frame does not have to have a valid kernel virtual address. </div><div><br></div>Regards, <br></div>MH<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Pritam Bankar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pritambankar1988@gmail.com" target="_blank">pritambankar1988@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Lets consider 32 bit Linux system with 512 physical RAM. Suppose I have standard 3:1 address space split. Now what I understand is</div>
<div> </div><div>(In general)</div><div>1. In the fourth gigabyte I have kernel space</div>
<div>2. Out of 1GB for kernel address space only 896MB is used as direct mapping and other 128 MB is used for Noncontiguous Memory Area Management, Fixed Mapping and Permanent Mapping.</div><div><br></div><div>PCMIIW</div>
<div><br></div><div>Following are my doubts : </div>1. Since my system has only 512MB RAM, will there be only direct mappings since 896 is enough to hold 512 RAM?<div>2. When user space program do malloc, we get some virtual address from userspace region (from first 3GB) of process. So will it be like, when I access some memory from that region, there is some physical frame associated with it AND same physical frame will also be mapped in kernel space ?</div>
<div>So what I want to know, for every physical frame is there a mapping in userspace as well as kernel space ? (given that some address in user space of process map to same physical frame) </div><div>3. If we consider example of Linux system with 4GB, now if I do malloc from user space from which memory region kernel will give memory ? Direct mapped region or fixed map or permanent map ?<br>
<div> <br clear="all"><div>Thanks and regards,<br>Pritam Bankar</div>
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