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CR4 has no affect on the page size when PAE is enabled.) With the PS flag set, the linear address
is divided into three sections:
•Page-directory-pointer-table entry—Bits 30 and 31 provide an offset to an entry in the
page-directory-pointer table. The selected entry provides the base physical address of a
page directory.
•Page-directory entry—Bits 21 through 29 provide an offset to an entry in the page
directory. The selected entry provides the base physical address of a 2-MByte page.
•Page offset—Bits 0 through 20 provides an offset to a physical address in the page.

3.8.4 Accessing the Full Extended Physical Address Space

With the Extended Page-Table Structure

The page-table structure described in the previous two sections allows up to 4 GBytes of
the 64 GByte extended physical address space to be addressed at one time. Additional 4-GByte
sections of physical memory can be addressed in either of two way:
•Change the pointer in register CR3 to point to another page-directory-pointer table, which
in turn points to another set of page directories and page tables.
•Change entries in the page-directory-pointer table to point to other page directories, which
in turn point to other sets of page tables.
Figure 3-19. Linear Address Translation With PAE Enabled (2-MByte Pages)
0
Directory Offset
Page Directory
Directory Entry
2-MByte Page
Physical Address
31 2021 Linear Address
Page-Directory-
Dir. Pointer Entry
CR3(PDPTR)
30 29
Pointer Table
Directory
Pointer
4 PDPTE ∗ 512 PDE = 2048 Pages
2
32*
9
21
*32 bits aligned onto a 32-byte boundary
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