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Mapping virtual address to physical address
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written 6.5 years ago by gravatar for yashbeer yashbeer ★ 11k

Address is used to uniquely identify the location of something inside the CPU memory. There are two types of addresses - physical and logical address.

Physical addresses

The physical addresses are provided by the hardware -

  • Per machine has one physical address space
  • Valid addresses are usually between 0 and …

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