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Lecture 17
Paging
Hardware Support
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Characteristics of
Paging and Segmentation
• Memory references are dynamically translated
into physical addresses at run time
– a process may be swapped in and out of main memory
such that it occupies different regions
• A process may be broken up into pieces that do
not need to located contiguously in main memory
– All pieces of a process do not need to be loaded in main
memory during execution
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Execution of a Program
• Operating system brings into main memory a few
pieces of the program
• Resident set - portion of process that is in main
memory
• An interrupt is generated when an address is
needed that is not in main memory
• Operating system places the process in a blocking
state
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Execution of a Program
• Piece of process that contains the logical
address is brought into main memory
– operating system issues a disk I/O Read request
– another process is dispatched to run while the
disk I/O takes place
– an interrupt is issued when disk I/O complete
which causes the operating system to place the
affected process in the Ready state
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Advantages of
Breaking up Process
• More processes may be maintained in main
memory
– only load in some of the pieces of each process
• With so many processes in main memory, it is
very likely a process will be in the Ready state at
any particular time
• It is possible for a process to be larger than all the
main memory
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Advantages of
Breaking up Processes
• Programmer is dealing with memory the
size of the hard disk
• It would be wasteful to load in many pieces
of the process when only a few pieces will
be used
• Time can be saved because unused pieces
are not swapped in and out of memory
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Types of Memory
• Real memory
– main memory
• Virtual memory
– memory on disk
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Principle of Locality
• Program and data references within a process tend
to cluster
• Only a few pieces of a process will be needed over
a short period of time
• Possible to make intelligent guesses about which
pieces will be needed in the future
• This suggests that virtual memory may work
efficiently
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Support Needed for
Virtual Memory
• Hardware must support paging and
segmentation
• Operating system must be able to
management the movement of pages and/or
segments between secondary memory and
main memory
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Paging
• Each process has its own page table
• Each page table entry contains the frame
number of the corresponding page in main
memory
• A bit is needed to indicate whether the page
is in main memory or not
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Paging
Virtual Address
Page
Number
Offset
Page Table Entry
P
M
Other Control
Bits
Frame Number
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Address Translation in a Paging System
Virtual Address
Page #
Offset
Frame #
Offset
Register
Page Table Ptr
Page Table
Offset
+
P#
Page
Frame
Frame #
Program
Paging
Main Memory
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Page Table
Implemented as a set of dedicated Registers
• These registers should be built with very
high-speed logic to make the paging address
translation efficient.
• DEC PDP-11 is an example of such
architecture. The address consists of 16 bits,
and the page size is 8K. The page table
consists of eight entries.
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Page Table
Kept in Main Memory
• Two items:
– Page table in main memory
– page-table base register (PTBR) points to the page table
• Problem: access(location i):
– index into the page table using PTBR, we get the frame
number
– actual address = frame-number + page-offset
• Thus, memory access is slowed by factor of
2
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Page Tables
• The entire page table may take up too much
main memory
• Page tables are also stored in virtual
memory
• When a process is running, part of its page
table is in main memory
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Translation Look-aside Buffer
(Associative Registers)
• Each virtual memory reference can cause
two physical memory accesses
– one to fetch the page table
– one to fetch the data
• To overcome this problem a special cache is
set up for page table entries
– called the TLB - Translation Look-aside Buffer
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Translation Look-aside Buffer
• Contains page table entries that have been
most recently used
• Works similar to main memory cache
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Translation Look-aside Buffer
• Given a virtual address, processor examines
the TLB
• If page table entry is present (a hit), the
frame number is retrieved and the real
address is formed
• If page table entry is not found in the TLB
(a miss), the page number is used to index
the process page table
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Translation Look-aside Buffer
• First checks if page is already in main
memory
– if not in main memory a page fault is issued
• The TLB is updated to include the new page
entry
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Translation Look-aside Buffer
• Each register consists of two parts:
– A key
– A value
• When the associative registers are presented
with an item,
– it is compared with all the keys simultaneously
– If the item is found, the corresponding value
field is output
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Use of a Translation Look-aside Buffer
Secondary
Memory
Main Memory
Virtual Address
Page # Offset
Translation
Lookaside Buffer
TLB hit
Offset
Load
page
Page Table
TLB miss
Frame # Offset
Real Address
Page fault
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START
Operation of TLB
CPU checks
the TLB
Page
table entry in
TLB?
Yes
No
Access page
table
No
Page fault
handling routing
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Page in main
memory?
Yes
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CPU generates
Physical
Address