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The algorithmically minded will have noticed that paging requires associative array (like Java
Map
of Python dict()
) abstract data structure where:The single level paging scheme uses a simple array implementation of the associative array:and in C pseudo-code it looks like this:
- the keys are the array index
- this implementation is very fast in time
- but it is too inefficient in memory
linear_address[0] = physical_address_0
linear_address[1] = physical_address_1
linear_address[2] = physical_address_2
...
linear_address[2^20-1] = physical_address_N
But there another simple associative array implementation that overcomes the memory problem: an (unbalanced) k-ary tree.
Using a K-ary tree instead of an array implementation has the following trade-offs:
In C-pseudo code, a 2-level K-ary tree with and we have the following arrays:
K = 2^10
looks like this:level0[0] = &level1_0[0]
level1_0[0] = physical_address_0_0
level1_0[1] = physical_address_0_1
...
level1_0[2^10-1] = physical_address_0_N
level0[1] = &level1_1[0]
level1_1[0] = physical_address_1_0
level1_1[1] = physical_address_1_1
...
level1_1[2^10-1] = physical_address_1_N
...
level0[N] = &level1_N[0]
level1_N[0] = physical_address_N_0
level1_N[1] = physical_address_N_1
...
level1_N[2^10-1] = physical_address_N_N
and it still contains
2^10 * 2^10 = 2^20
possible keys.K-ary trees can save up a lot of space, because if we only have one key, then we only need the following arrays:
The Linux Kernel reserves two zones of virtual memory:
- one for kernel memory
- one for programs
The exact split is configured by
CONFIG_VMSPLIT_...
. By default:- on 32-bit:
- on 64-bit: currently only 48-bits are actually used, split into two equally sized disjoint spaces. The Linux kernel just assigns:
- the bottom part to processes
00000000 00000000
to008FFFFF FFFFFFFF
- the top part to the kernel:
FFFF8000 00000000
toFFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF
, like this:------------------ FFFFFFFF Kernel ------------------ C0000000 (not addressable) ------------------ BFFFFFFF Process ------------------ 00000000
- the bottom part to processes
Kernel memory is also paged.
In previous versions, the paging was continuous, but with HIGHMEM this changed.
There is no clear physical memory split: stackoverflow.com/questions/30471742/physical-memory-userspace-kernel-split-on-linux-x86-64
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