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[$] Moving physical pages from user space
Monday September 18, 2023. 05:10 PM , from LWN.net
Processes in a Linux system run within their own virtual address spaces.
Their virtual addresses map to physical pages provided by the hardware, but the kernel takes pains to hide the physical addresses of those pages; processes normally have no way of knowing (and no need to know) where their memory is located in physical memory. As a result, the system calls for memory management also deal in virtual addresses. Gregory Price is currently trying to create an exception to this rule with a proposal for a new system call that would operate on memory using physical addresses.
https://lwn.net/Articles/944115/
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