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Windows® Internals, Sixth Edition, Part 2
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Windows® Internals, Sixth Edition, Part 2

by David A. Solomon Mark E. Russinovich and Alex Ionescu
September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
25h 45m
English
Microsoft Press
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Address Translation

Now that you’ve seen how Windows structures the virtual address space, let’s look at how it maps these address spaces to real physical pages. User applications and system code reference virtual addresses. This section starts with a detailed description of 32-bit x86 address translation (in both non-PAE and PAE modes) and continues with a brief description of the differences on the 64-bit IA64 and x64 platforms. In the next section, we’ll describe what happens when such a translation doesn’t resolve to a physical memory address (paging) and explain how Windows manages physical memory via working sets and the page frame database.

x86 Virtual Address Translation

Using data structures the memory manager creates and maintains called ...

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