Re: address spaces in kernel

[Rahul Iyer <idlisambar@xxxxxxxxx>]

> 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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