<story><title>How The Kernel Manages Your Memory</title><url>http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/how-the-kernel-manages-your-memory</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xpaulbettsx</author><text>One of the most important bits to pull out of this article, is that when you ask the kernel for memory, it doesn&apos;t actually do anything other than update its accounting of available memory and VA space - when you &lt;i&gt;touch the page&lt;/i&gt;, you page fault and the kernel actually gives you a physical frame. The NT kernel (and I suspect any other production OS) works the same way.</text></comment>
<story><title>How The Kernel Manages Your Memory</title><url>http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/how-the-kernel-manages-your-memory</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zwieback</author><text>Great article, nice graphics. His other articles are very good too. I&apos;d love to see someone explaining the details of memory management for the ARM Linux kernel with the same clarity.</text></comment>