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page table

The operating system's lookup table, kept in memory, that says for each page of a program which slot of real RAM holds it and what the program may do with it.

A page table is a kernel-maintained data structure mapping virtual page numbers to page table entries; each process has its own, and the hardware walks the current one (located by a page-table base register) on a TLB miss.

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