On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Anticipating a Reply wrote: > Do you mean to say User space programs > are allocated memory from > > ZONE_NORMAL:the kernel address space > > How is this differentiated from the > space occupied by the Kernel ? > > How is the Kernel space protected > from user space access then ? Virtual memory is a different address space than physical memory. Rik -- Engineers don't grow up, they grow sideways. http://www.surriel.com/ http://kernelnewbies.org/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/