The Kernel Virtual Address Space (KVA) is the virtual memory area in which all Linux kernel threads reside. The second part of the virtual address space is occupied by the User Virtual Address Space which contain user threads.
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“After night’s thunder far away had rolled
The fiery day had a kernel sweet of cold”
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—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
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size eight by four. There it sits.
My red book, name, address and number.
These are all people that I somehow own.
Yet some of these names are counterfeit.”
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—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)