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Hi, I am following the OS development tutorial to write my own OS. I am trying to implement multi-tasking in kernel mode. I need to have functions to 1. translate virtual address to physical address. - This is required to get the physical address of page directory lo load in the cr3 register. 2. tra...

Hi, I have a query about the vmmngr_map_page function. Following is the implementation void vmmngr_map_page (void* phys, void* virt) { //! get page directory pdirectory* pageDirectory = vmmngr_get_directory (); //! get page table pd_entry* e = &pageDirectory->m_entries [PAGE_DIRECTORY_INDEX ((uint32...

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I am thinking of implementing a heap allocator on top of virtual memory manager. However I am wondering if it is possible to access the virtual memory manager only through the interface. The function provided the VMM to allocate a page is bool vmmngr_alloc_page (pt_entry* e) { //! allocate a free ph...

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I did not understand the calculation of memory size from the fields in multiboot structure.
Please explain the addition of 1024 and multiplication by 64.

It is certainly possible to use memory above the 1Mb limit in Real mode. Thanks a lot for explaining how unreal mode works! I am happy after reading it :) However here the question was whether the bootloader in the tutorial can access memory over 1 MB or not and my understanding is that the bootloa...

The tutorial is slightly misleading in this part. The bootloader used by the tutorials cannot load anything above 1 MB. Because of this, the kernel is loaded at address 0x3000, instead of 1MB. However, the page mappings are done in such a way that the kernel still runs at 3GB virtual when paging is...

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Hi, I have queries about memory management and higher half kernels which have been troubling me for quite some time. The tutorial mentions - A Higher Half Kernel is a kernel that has a virtual base address of 2GB or above. My understanding is that if the kernel has virtual addresses V then all the a...

When the bootloader is reading the kernel into memory, it does that one sector (512 bytes) at a time. It keeps track of the amount of sectors that it read, and passes that value to the kernel in the DX register. The kernel saves it in the kernelSize variable, and multiplies it by 512 to get the ker...

Thanks a lot! I was wondering about marking the kernel region as occupied. It is not mentioned in the tutorial but it's there in the source code. There's one more thing I would like to ask. Could you please tell how the kernel size is calculated and why is it multiplied by 512 when passing it to pmm...

Hi, I am following the OS development tutorial and I am at the Physical Memory Manager section. I have a query related to the function for allocation a block of memory. void* pmmngr_alloc_block () { if (pmmngr_get_free_block_count() <= 0) return 0; //out of memory int frame = mmap_first_free (); if ...