>> hmm, but shouldn't the kernel be able to access
>> physical memory directly (up to a some range anyway) ?
> Since there is a MMU that translates from virtual to physical and each
> address generated by CPU goes through this, hence you need to create
> page table entries.
ok yes, that makes sense.
Now suppose I want to access the second byte/word from each page frame (physical) in the system (or a random set of page frames), would I need to do something similar ?
On the same topic, how can a page frame (struct page) be resolved to its physical address ?
thanks
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