Source: cirosantilli/x86-paging

= x86 Paging Tutorial
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This tutorial explains the very basics of how paging works, with focus on <x86>, although most high level concepts will also apply to other <instruction set architectures>, e.g. </ARM (ISA)>.

The goals are to:
* demonstrate minimal concrete simplified paging examples that will be useful to those learning paging for the first time
* explain the motivation behind paging

This tutorial was extracted and expanded from https://stackoverflow.com/a/18431262/895245[this Stack Overflow answer].