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Linux Memory Region Data Structures

The memory descriptor ( mm_struct ) maintains information about a process's address space (current memory it owns). One of its members is a linked list of Virtual Memory Areas (VMAs) , represented by vm_area_struct . The memory descriptor ( mm_struct ) contains a field named mmap , which points to the head of the linked list of Virtual Memory Areas (VMAs) . Each VMA ( vm_area_struct ) contains a…

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