WORKING WITH THE CPU
MemoryManagement Unit (MMU)
116 Hardware Reference NS9215
Translation
sequence for large
page references
Because the upper four bits of the page index and low-order four bits of the coarse
page table index overlap, each coarse page table entry for a large page must be
duplicated 16 times (in consecutive memory locations) in the coarse page table.
If the large page descriptor is included in a fine page table, the high-order six bits
of the page index and low-order six bits of the fine page table overlap. Each fine
page table entry for a large page must be duplicated 64 times.
31 14 13 0
Translation base
1
Translation table base
31 1413 0
Translation base
2
Table index 0 0
31 2019 0
Table index Page index
First-level descriptor
31 0
Coarse page table base address
2
01
1345
Domain 1
31 0
Coarse page table base address
table index
1615 1211
Modified virtual address
8910
12910
31 1615 121110 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
00L2 table index
01BCAP0AP1AP2AP3Page base address
Page base address
31 01615
Page index
Physical address
Second-level descriptor