Hello Stefan, have you tried consulting LDD3 (Linux Driver Development, 3rd edition) on the matter? https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ Chapter 15 may be especially of your interest. On 22.03.2017 08:02, Stefan Tatschner wrote: > Hallo everybody, > > currently I am trying to understand the internal memory allocation > mechanisms of the kernel. I am particularly interested in the > translation of virtual memory addresses to physical addresses. > Additionally, how are these physical addresses located in the relevant > RAM Modules? I have read that even in the kernel there are "virtual" > physical addresses... Could somebody give me some pointers to further > literature about this topic? > > During my research, I discovered the /proc/pid/pagemap file [1]. I find > the documentation a bit sparse and I do not understand how I can use > this file properly. If somebody could share some examples, that would be > great! > > Regards, > Stefan > > [1]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
