Storage protection
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Storage protection is a hardware or software feature that prevents computer programs from inadvertently or deliberately altering the contents of parts of computer memory, for reasons of security and reliability.
Examples of storage requiring protection might be parts of an operating system instruction code or process control block or simply memory relating to another thread within the same processor.
[edit] Examples of protected storage
- PSW
- Process control block
- Kernel (computer science)
- passwords
- Storage for unrelated thread
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