Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070118712
Filing Date: November 21, 2020
Inventors: Henri van Riel, Adriaan van de Ven
Assignee: RED HAT, INC.
Current U.S. Classification: 711, 711/170000
View Prior Art for Claim 00026
The method as claimed in Claim 22, wherein if it is determined that a memory page frame needs to be allocated, said O/S determining whether said process allocates memory elsewhere in its virtual memory space, said O/S further:
unmapping said freed page frame associated with that page frame's old virtual memory address in the process's virtual memory space, and
marking said freed page frame as no longer available for reuse, and,
mapping said freed page frame associated with said process to a new virtual address.