Why does Linux favor 0x7f mappings?
First and foremost, assuming that you are talking about x86-64, we can see that the virtual memory map for x86-64 is: ======================================================================================================================== Start addr | Offset | End addr | Size | VM area description ======================================================================================================================== | | | | 0000000000000000 | 0 | 00007fffffffffff | 128 TB | user-space virtual memory, different per mm … Read more