How does KERNEL memory allocation work? //Source Dive// 004

Опубликовано: 01 Июль 2026
на канале: Low Byte Productions
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In this installment of //Source Dive//, we're deep in the xv6 operating system, trying to understand how physical memory of the system is tracked, distributed, and returned to the kernel. It's a fascinatingly simple algorithm, which can be paradoxically kind of hard to understand!

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