Role of The Page Table
In operating systems that use virtual memory, every process is given the impression that it is working with large, contiguous sections of memory. In reality, each process' memory may be dispersed across different areas of physical memory, or may have been paged out to a backup storage (typically the hard disk). When a process requests access to its memory, it is the responsibility of the operating system to map the virtual address provided by the process to the physical address where that memory is stored. The page table is where the operating system stores its mappings of virtual addresses to physical addresses. Each mapping is also known as a Page Table Entry (PTE).
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