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virtual page number

The upper part of a program's address, which says which page it is in.

The virtual page number is the virtual address shifted right by the page-offset width; translation maps it to a physical frame number and leaves the page offset unchanged.

Examples

  • With 4 KiB pages, the address 0x12345 has virtual page number 0x12.

See also

page offset memory page page table address translation
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