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Why RAM is divided in USER space and KERNEL space?

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Why RAM is divided in USER space and KERNEL space?
posted Dec 17, 2014 by Chirag Gangdev

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I believe you are talking about logical space not the complete RAM, please confirm
Ya.. I am talking about RAM space..
To do kernel operations there is Kernel Space and for our use user space is there.. So my question is why it is like that? What If it is not separated?

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Now it seems you want to know why there is kernal space and user space

The user space, which is a set of locations where normal user processes run (i.e everything other than the kernel). The role of the kernel is to manage applications running in this space from messing with each other, and the machine, and

The kernel space, which is the location where the code of the kernel is stored, and executes under.

Now assume you have a program which calls few system calls which is part of kernel hence kernel space. If we don't have such mechanism then one has to write.

answer Dec 17, 2014 by Salil Agrawal
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