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GATE CSE 2024 Session 2 Q24: Responsibilities of the MMU in a paging system

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Which of the following tasks is/are the responsibility/responsibilities of the memory management unit (MMU) in a system with paging-based memory management?

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Answer: B, C, D (official GATE 2024 final answer key)

Concept used: The MMU is hardware doing translation and protection checks; allocating page tables is OS software work.

First step: Separate what happens on every memory access in hardware from what the OS kernel does when a process is created.

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Source: official GATE 2024 Session 2 CS question paper and final answer key, organised by IISc Bangalore. Question paper · Answer key

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