Explore the Linux Memory Model

Constable On Patrol writes to tell us that IBM DeveloperWorks has an interesting look at the 'fundamentals of how memory is constructed and managed' in the Linux memory module. The article serves as a great intro to the basics of memory management for Linux design and implementation. From the article: "This guide includes an examination of the segment control unit and the paging models as well as a detailed look at the physical memory zone."

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Not very insightful

[LordNimon]

This is article doesn't really contain any new (or even hard-to-find) information. Most of it covers basic x86 memory architecture, which any driver developer (on any OS) already knows. The remaining few paragraphs are basically just excerpts from the memory architecture chaper of any decent Linux kernel book.

If you really want to learn about the Linux memory architecture, get Mel Gorman's book "Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager".