Paging Segmentation and Two-Level Page Table

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What is the primary function of the Memory Management Unit (MMU)?

  • Demand paging and dynamic partitioning
  • Cache management and write buffering
  • Access control and translation of virtual addresses (correct)
  • Memory allocation and deallocation

What is the maximum number of entries in a page directory in a two-level page table lookup?

  • 2048
  • 1024 (correct)
  • 8192
  • 4096

What is the size of each page in a two-level page table lookup?

  • 4 MB
  • 16 MB
  • 1 MB
  • 4 KB (correct)

What is the purpose of the Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB)?

<p>To cache virtual-to-physical address translations (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the maximum size of a supersection in the ARM memory system?

<p>16 MB (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of the access permission bits in the ARM memory system?

<p>To control access to memory regions (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary purpose of the access control bits in an ARM memory management system?

<p>To control access to a region of memory by a given process (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for a collection of sections and/or pages with particular access permissions in the ARM architecture?

<p>Domain (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary purpose of a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) in a memory management system?

<p>To perform virtual-to-physical address translation (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for a memory management technique that allocates fixed-size blocks of memory to a process?

<p>Fixed partitioning (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary purpose of swapping in a memory management system?

<p>To transfer a process from main memory to secondary storage (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for a table that stores the mapping of virtual addresses to physical addresses in a memory management system?

<p>Page table (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What occurs when the CPU activates the I/O hardware in a page fault handling routine?

<p>The page is transferred from disk to main memory (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary advantage of segmentation in memory management?

<p>It simplifies the handling of growing data structures (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of the Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB)?

<p>To translate virtual addresses to physical addresses (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the maximum size of the physical address space in the Intel x86 architecture?

<p>4 Gbytes (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of the privilege mechanism in segmentation?

<p>To restrict access to data segments based on clearance level (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the result of a TLB miss in the TLB operation?

<p>The OS instructs the CPU to read the page from disk (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of demand paging in memory management?

<p>To transfer pages from disk to main memory only when needed (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the role of the page table in memory management?

<p>To translate virtual addresses to physical addresses (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the benefit of segmented paged memory in the Intel x86 architecture?

<p>It provides predictable access times and allows for the efficient allocation of memory within partitions (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of the page fault handling routine in memory management?

<p>To transfer pages from disk to main memory (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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