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Do page fault, page replacement, and paging happen to

  • the kernel or processes, and

  • the kernel space or the user space?

Rui F Ribeiro
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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.

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  • 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