On Tuesday 08 January 2002 08:57 pm, Paul Gearon wrote: > Sorry for the simple question, but can someone please direct me to a > description (or maybe diagram) of the full address space for a process > (all the way from 00000000 to FFFFFFFF). > > I know I've seen this before, but I can't recall where. (Rubini's book > maybe?) I have a vague idea already (bottom 3GB for the process, top 1GB > for the kernel) but I'm interested in the details. > The Bovet and Cesati book has a whole chapter on Process Address Space. A process's address range is limited by the TASK_SIZE variable (0xC0000000 for x86). A nice description of how the address space is layed out along with a discussion of malloc's limitations can be found in the lkml archives for July: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0107.1/0193.html -Marvin -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
