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Memory Management Unit
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Figure 3-4 First-level descriptor
A section descriptor provides the base address of a 1MB block of memory.
The page table descriptors provide the base address of a page table that contains
second-level descriptors. There are two sizes of page table:
• coarse page tables have 256 entries, splitting the 1MB that the table describes into
4KB blocks
• fine page tables have 1024 entries, splitting the 1MB that the table describes into
1KB blocks.
First-level descriptor bit assignments are shown in Table 3-2.
31 20 19 12 11 10 9 8 5 4 3 2 1 0
0 0
Coarse page table base address Domain 1 0 1
Section base address AP Domain 1 C B 1 0
Fine page table base address Domain 1 1 1
Fault
Coarse page table
Section
Fine page table
Table 3-2 First-level descriptor bits
Bits
Description
Section Coarse Fine
[31:20] [31:10] [31:12] These bits form the corresponding bits of the physical
address.
[19:12] - - Should Be Zero.
[11:10] - - Access permission bits. Access permissions and domains on
page 3-3 and Fault address and fault status registers on
page 3-21 show how to interpret the access permission bits.
[9] [9] [11:9] Should Be Zero.
[8:5] [8:5] [8:5] Domain control bits.
[4] [4] [4] Must be 1.