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In
physical memory
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Old
systems (e.g., IBM 360/67)
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Extra
effort needed to look inside of VM of any process
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In
virtual memory
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Most
modern systems
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Shared
segment among all processes
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Advantages
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Easy
to access, transfer to/from VM of any process
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No
context switch needed for traps, page faults
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No
context switch needed for purely kernel interrupts
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