Do page fault, page replacement, and paging happen to the kernel or just to processes, and to the kernel space or the user space?

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Do page fault, page replacement, and paging happen to

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 14 '18 at 17:24

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Paging happens only to user space memory from processes. Kernel memory space is always mapped to physical memory and never paged out.

answered Sep 14 '18 at 17:24

RalfFriedl

Thanks. If interested https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/475676/does-the-linux-kernel-have-its-own-page-table – Tim Oct 15 '18 at 21:02

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