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The Unabridged Pentium 4 IA32 Processor Genealogy
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The Unabridged Pentium 4 IA32 Processor Genealogy

by Tom Shanley, Bob Colwell
July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
1744 pages
35h 3m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Enabling Paging

The IA32 processor's Paging Unit is only enabled by an OS that makes use of paging (virtually all of today's OS's support paging). Before enabling the Paging Unit, the OS programmer must create a minimum of two tables in memory:

  • One is the master directory (the Page Directory). Each entry in the Page Directory points to a Page Table, or to the Page Table's location on a mass storage device.

  • The other is a Page Table. Each entry in a Page Table points to a physical page in memory, or to the page's location on a mass storage device.

Each Page Table identifies the physical location of the 1024d pages that comprise the related page group, each page containing 4KB of information (in other words, a Page Table tracks the current location ...

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