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TLB miss

When the translation for an address isn't in the TLB, so the processor has to walk the page table first.

A TLB miss triggers a page walk (hardware on x86-64, ARM64 and RISC-V application processors); its cost depends on whether the page-table entries themselves hit in the data caches.

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