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Introduction to Advanced Page Tables

Introduction to Advanced Page Tables

Get familiar​ with the issue of page tables being too big,​ which will be under consideration throughout this chapter.

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We now tackle the second problem that paging introduces: page tables are too big and thus consume too much memory.

Let’s start out with a linear page table. As you might recall, linear page tables get ...