Need help understanding memory models, cpu modes and address translation

Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar chambilkethakur at gmail.com
Wed Jul 13 13:40:46 EDT 2011


On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Jeff Haran <jharan at bytemobile.com> wrote:

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> *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****
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> Hi,
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> 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.
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> Thanks
> Vaibhav Jain****
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> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta at gmail.com>
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> Hi,
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> > 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.****
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> 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.
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> thanks,
> Daniel.
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> [1] pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2010/readings/i386.pdf****
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> You might want to try “Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager” by
> Mel Gorman. It’s freely available on the web.****
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> 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.****
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> 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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