And AFAIK specifically Linear Addresses are those which processor sees
to go through the page tables to access physical memory and in kernel
Linear and Virtual Addresses are same ...... (CMIIW) ....
Paging
Segmentation
Virtual Address ------------> Linear Address -------------------------->
Physical Address
Hope that clears things up :)
-rahul
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