Re: Where is the Page Table Entry of a process kept?

[Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org>]

On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, ZhangWeiXue wrote:

> Page Table Entry of a process is very import to transfer virsual
> address to physical address,
> I want to know where is a process's Page Table Entry kept, which
> data struct holds the information?

It's in the page tables. The page tables are referenced through
a PDE (Pagetable Directory Entry, aka first-level page table).
The pointer to that structure can be found in the TSS structure.

cheers,

Rik -- Open Source: you deserve to be in control of your data.
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