The following excerpt is from chapter 3, User-Level Memory Management, of Arnold Robbins’ book Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals, Prentice Hall PTR; (April 12, 2004), used with ...

A page table is a data structure used by the Linux kernel to translate virtual addresses into physical addresses. Since memory is managed in fixed-size blocks called pages (typically 4KB in size), ...

Do use them when the structure of a program makes it hard to tell how many readers will exist for a given piece of data. One more type used for mutable memory management is RefCell.

Brief Description of Course Content Studies data abstractions (e.g., stacks, queues, lists, trees) and their representation techniques (e.g., linking, arrays). Introduces concepts used in algorithm ...