Lecture 6: paging and virtual memory
We discuss the design of the virtual memory subsystem on the x86 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, and how this is used to implement the process abstraction in xv6.
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We discuss the design of the virtual memory subsystem on the x86 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, and how this is used to implement the process abstraction in xv6.