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How do operating systems isolate processes from each other?

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Assuming the CPU is in protected mode:

When a ring-0 kernel sets up a ring-3 userspace process, which CPU-level datastructure does it have to modify to indicate which virtual address space this specific process can access?

Does it just set the Privilege Bit of all other memory segments in the Global Descriptor Table to (Ring) 0?


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