Difference between physical/logical/virtual memory address

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无人及你
无人及你 2020-12-02 06:59

I am a little confused about the terms physical/logical/virtual addresses in an Operating System(I use Linux- open SUSE)

Here is what I understand:

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  •  天涯浪人
    2020-12-02 07:34

    Normally every address issued (for x86 architecture) is a logical address which is translated to a linear address via the segment tables. After the translation into linear address, it is then translated to physical address via page table.
    A nice article explaining the same in depth:
    http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/memory-translation-and-segmentation/

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