Does every process have its own page table?

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Steven picture Steven · Dec 7, 2010 · Viewed 14k times · Source

Does every process have its own page table or does it simply add it's page entries into one big page table?

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Bernd picture Bernd · Dec 7, 2010

Yes every process has its own pagetables. They might be shared with the parent process(copy on write) or with other processes(shared memory). But in general every process has its own.

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