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Chapter 12
Virtual MemoryCopyright © 2008
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Introduction
• Virtual Memory Basics• Demand Paging• The Virtual Memory Manager• Page Replacement Policies• Controlling Memory Allocation to a Process• Shared Pages• Memory-Mapped Files• Case Studies of Virtual Memory Using Paging• Virtual Memory Using Segmentation
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• MMU translates logical address into physical one• Virtual memory manager is a software component
– Uses demand loading– Exploits locality of reference to improve performance
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Virtual Memory Basics
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Virtual Memory Basics (continued)
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Virtual Memory Using Paging
• MMU performs address translation using page tableEffective memory address of logical address (pi, bi)= start address of the page frame containing page pi + bi
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Demand Paging Preliminaries
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Demand Paging Preliminaries (continued)
• Memory Management Unit (MMU) raises a page fault interrupt if page containing logical address not in memory
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Demand Paging Preliminaries (continued)
A page fault interrupt is raised because Valid bit of page 3 is 0
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Demand Paging Preliminaries (continued)
• At a page fault, the required page is loaded in a free page frame
• If no page frame is free, virtual memory manager performs a page replacement operation– Page replacement algorithm
– Page-out initiated if page is dirty (modified bit is set)
• Page-in and page-out: page I/O or page traffic• Effective memory access time in demand paging:
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• (Empirical) law of locality of reference: logical addresses used by process in a short interval tend to be grouped in certain portions of its logical address space
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Page Replacement
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• How much memory to allocate to a process
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Memory Allocation to a Process
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Optimal Page Size
• Size of a page is defined by computer hardware• Page size determines:
– No of bits required to represent byte number in a page
– Memory wastage due to internal fragmentation
– Size of the page table for a process
– Page fault rates when a fixed amount of memory is allocated to a process
• Use of larger page sizes than optimal value implies somewhat higher page fault rates for a process– Tradeoff between HW cost and efficient operation
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Paging Hardware
• Page-table-address-register (PTAR) points to the start of a page table
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Paging Hardware (continued)
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Memory Protection
• Memory protection violation raised if:– Process tries to access a nonexistent page
– Process exceeds its (page) access privileges
• It is implemented through:– Page table size register (PTSR) of MMU
• Kernel records number of pages contained in a process in its PCB
– Loads number from PCB in PTSR when process is scheduled
– Prot info field of the page’s entry in the page table
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• Translation look-aside buffer (TLB): small and fast associative memory used to speed up address translation
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Address Translation and Page Fault Generation
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Address Translation and Page Fault Generation (continued)
• TLBs can be HW or SW managed
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Address Translation and Page Fault Generation (continued)
• Some mechanisms used to improve performance:– Wired TLB entries for kernel pages: never replaced
– Superpages
TLB hit ratio
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Superpages
• TLB reach is stagnant even though memory sizes increase rapidly as technology advances– TLB reach = page size x no of entries in TLB– It affects performance of virtual memory
• Superpages are used to increase the TLB reach– A superpage is a power of 2 multiple of page size– Its start address (both logical and physical) is aligned on
a multiple of its own size– Max TLB reach = max superpage size x no of entries in
TLB– Size of a superpage is adapted to execution behavior of a
process through promotions and demotions
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Support for Page Replacement
• Virtual memory manager needs following information for minimizing page faults and number of page-in and page-out operations:– The time when a page was last used
• Expensive to provide enough bits for this purpose• Solution: use a single reference bit
– Whether a page is dirty• A page is clean if it is not dirty• Solution: modified bit in page table entry
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Practical Page Table Organizations
• A process with a large address space requires a large page table, which occupies too much memory
• Solutions:– Inverted page table
• Describes contents of each page frame– Size governed by size of memory
– Independent of number and sizes of processes
– Contains pairs of the form (program id, page #)
• Con: information about a page must be searched
– Multilevel page table• Page table of process is paged
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Inverted Page Tables
Use of hash tableSpeeds up search
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Multilevel Page Tables
• If size of a table entry is 2e bytes, number of page table entries in one PT page is 2nb/2e
• Logical address (pi , bi) is regrouped into three fields:
– PT page with the number pi
1 contains entry for pi
– pi2 is entry number for pi
in PT page
– bi
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I/O Operations in a Paged Environment
• Process makes system call for I/O operations– Parameters include: number of bytes to transfer, logical
address of the data area
• Call activates I/O handler in kernel– I/O subsystem does not contain an MMU, so I/O handler
replaces logical address of data area with physical address, using information from process page table
– I/O fix (bit in misc info field) ensures pages of data area are not paged out
– Scatter/gather feature can deposit parts of I/O operation’s data in noncontiguous memory areas
– Alternatively, data area pages put in contiguous areas
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Example: I/O Operations in Virtual Memory
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The Virtual Memory Manager
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Example: Page Replacement
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Overview of Operation of the Virtual Memory Manager
• Virtual memory manager makes two important decisions during its operation:– Upon a page fault, decides which page to replace
– Periodically decides how many page frames should be allocated to a process
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Page Replacement Policies
• A page replacement policy should replace a page not likely to be referenced in the immediate future
• Examples:– Optimal page replacement policy
• Minimizes total number of page faults; infeasible in practice
– First-in first-out (FIFO) page replacement policy– Least recently used (LRU) page replacement policy
• Basis: locality of reference
• Page reference strings– Trace of pages accessed by a process during its
operation– We associate a reference time string with each
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Example: Page Reference String
• A computer supports instructions that are 4 bytes in length– Uses a page size of 1KB
– Symbols A and B are in pages 2 and 5
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Page Replacement Policies (continued)
• To achieve desirable page fault characteristics, faults shouldn’t increase when memory allocation is increased– Policy must have stack (or inclusion) property
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FIFO page replacement policy does not exhibit stack property.
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Page Replacement Policies (continued)
• Virtual memory manager cannot use FIFO policy – Increasing allocation to a process may increase page
fault frequency of process• Would make it impossible to control thrashing
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Practical Page Replacement Policies
• Virtual memory manager has two threads– Free frames manager implements page replacement
policy
– Page I/O manager performs page-in/out operations
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Practical Page Replacement Policies (continued)
• LRU replacement is not feasible– Computers do not provide sufficient bits in the ref info
field to store the time of last reference
• Most computers provide a single reference bit– Not recently used (NRU) policies use this bit
• Simplest NRU policy: Replace an unreferenced page and reset all reference bits if all pages have been referenced
• Clock algorithms provide better discrimination between pages by resetting reference bits periodically
– One-handed clock algorithm
– Two-handed clock algorithm
» Resetting pointer (RP) and examining pointer (EP)
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Example: Two-Handed Clock Algorithm
• Both pointers are advanced simultaneously• Algorithm properties defined by pointer distance:
– If pointers are close together, only recently used pages will survive in memory
– If pointers are far apart, only pages that have not been used in a long time would be removed
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Controlling Memory Allocation to a Process
• Process Pi is allocated alloci number of page frames
• Fixed memory allocation – Fixes alloc statically; uses local page replacement
• Variable memory allocation– Uses local and/or global page replacement
– If local replacement is used, handler periodically determines correct alloc value for a process
• May use working set model
• Sets alloc to size of the working set
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Implementation of a Working Set Memory Allocator
• Swap out a process if alloc page frames cannot be allocated
• Expensive to determine WSi(t,∆) and alloci at every time instant t– Solution: Determine working sets periodically
• Sets determined at end of an interval are used to decide values of alloc for use during the next interval
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Shared Pages
• Static sharing results from static binding performed by a linker/loader before execution of program
• Dynamic binding conserves memory by binding same copy of a program/data to several processes– Program or data shared retains its identity
– Two conditions should be satisfied:• Shared program should be coded as reentrant
– Can be invoked by many processes at the same time
• Program should be bound to identical logical addresses in every process that shared it
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Shared pages should have samepage numbers inall processes
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Copy-on-Write
• Feature used to conserve memory when data in shared pages could be modified– Copy-on-write flag in page table entries Memory
allocation decisions are performed statically
A private copy of page k is made
when A modifies it
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Memory-Mapped Files
• Memory mapping of a file by a process binds file to a part of the logical address space of the process– Binding is performed when process makes a memory
map system call
– Analogous to dynamic binding of programs and data
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Memory-Mapped Files (continued)
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Case Studies of Virtual Memory Using Paging
• Unix Virtual Memory• Linux Virtual Memory• Virtual Memory in Solaris• Virtual Memory in Windows
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Unix Virtual Memory
• Paging hardware differs in architectures• Pages can be: resident, unaccessed, swapped-out• Allocation of as little swap space as possible• Copy-on-write for fork• Lack reference bit in some HW architectures;
compensated using valid bit in interesting manner• Process can fix some pages in memory• Pageout daemon uses a clock algorithm
– Swaps out a process if all required pages cannot be in memory
– A swap-in priority is used to avoid starvation
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Linux Virtual Memory
• Page size of 4 KB• On 64-bit architectures, uses three-level page table• States for page frames: free, active, inactive dirty,
inactive laundered, inactive clean• Page replacement based on a clock algorithm
– Uses two lists called active list and inactive list
• Buddy system allocator for allocating page frames• Several virtual memory regions for a process:
– Zero-filled, file-backed, private memory
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Virtual Memory in Solaris
• Supports normal pages and superpages– Superpages:
• Automatically for processes with large address spaces• Can be requested using memcntl system call• Not used for memory-mapped files
• Solaris 6 introduced priority paging to avoid interference between file processing and virtual memory
• Page scanner tries to keep a sufficient number of page frames on cyclic page cache (since Solaris 8)– lotsfree parameter indicates how many page frames
should be free– Uses two-handed clock algorithm on a global basis
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Virtual Memory in Windows
• Supports both 32-bit and 64-bit logical addresses• Page size is 4 KB• Process address space is either 2 GB or 3 GB• Two-, three- or four-level page tables and various page
table entry formats– On the X-86 architecture:
• Page frame can be in one of eight states, including: valid, free, zeroed, standby, modified, and bad
• A process must first reserve virtual address space and then commit it for specific entities
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Virtual Memory in Windows (continued)
• A section object represents a section of memory that can be shared– A process maps a view to access part of a section
– Copy-on-write feature used for sharing pages
– Prototype PTE is set-up for shared pages
• TLBs are managed by HW (32-bit) or SW (64-bit)• Exploits reference locality: loads a few pages before
and after a page-faulted page into memory• Uses notion of working sets (for memory allocation)
– Clock algorithm
• Page lists: free, zero-initiated, modified, standby
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Virtual Memory Using Segmentation
• A segment is a logical entity in a program, such as a function, a data structure, or an object– Or, a module that consists of some or all of these
– Convenient unit for sharing and protection
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Example: Effective Address Calculation in Segmentation
• Logical address (si, bi) can be specified as ids– (alpha, beta)
• alpha: name of a segment• beta: id associated with a byte contained in alpha
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Management of Memory
• Similarities to paging:– Segment fault indicates segment is not in memory– Segment-in operation is performed to load segment
• Segment-out operations may be needed first
– Can use working set of segment for allocation• Segments can be replaced on NRU basis
• Differences to paging:– Can lead to external fragmentation
• Tackled through compaction or through memory reuse techniques (first fit, best fit, etc.)
– Segments can dynamically grow or shrink in size
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Sharing and Protection
• Two important issues in protection and sharing of segments are:– Static and dynamic sharing of segments
– Detecting use of invalid addresses• Protection exception if bi exceeds size of si
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• External fragmentation exists in a virtual memory using segmentation– Solution: segmentation with paging
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Segmentation with Paging
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Summary
• Basic actions in virtual memory using paging: address translation and demand loading of pages– Implemented jointly by
• Memory Management Unit (MMU): Hardware• Virtual memory manager: Software
• Memory is divided into page frames • Virtual memory manager maintains a page table
– Inverted and multilevel page tables use less memory but are less efficient
– A fast TLB is used to speed up address translation
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Summary (continued)
• Which page should VM manager remove from memory to make space for a new page?– Page replacement algorithms exploit locality of reference
• LRU has stack property, but is expensive• NRU algorithms are used in practice
– E.g., clock algorithms
• How much memory should manager allocate?– Use working set model to avoid thrashing
• Copy-on-write can be used for shared pages• Memory mapping of files speeds up access to data