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Santhosh Pai
Santhosh Pai

Reputation: 2625

Page Table Management

I understood the concept of paging in OS , just wanted to know where the page table is present. Is it present on the Main -Memory or in secondary memory .Expecting a reply on the same .

Thanks,

Upvotes: 0

Views: 139

Answers (1)

Alexey Frunze
Alexey Frunze

Reputation: 62048

Some 2nd level page tables can be swapped out to the disk just like any other pages, if the CPU/OS design allows.

You don't want to swap out the first level page table and certain pages and page tables of the kernel itself, though. If you do, you may dead-lock the system.

Upvotes: 1

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