Method, system, and apparatus for page sizing extension

Abstract

A method, system, and apparatus may initialize a fixed plurality of page table entries for a fixed plurality of pages in memory, each page having a first size, wherein a linear address for each page table entry corresponds to a physical address and the fixed plurality of pages are aligned. A bit in each of the page table entries for the aligned pages may be set to indicate whether or not the fixed plurality of pages is to be treated as one combined page having a second page size larger than the first page size. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

1 . An apparatus comprising:
 a processor to access a memory via a paging system having a first page size and one or more page tables, to initialize a fixed plurality of page table entries for a fixed plurality of pages, wherein each page has the first page size and a linear address for each page in each page table entry corresponds to a physical address and the fixed plurality of pages are aligned, and to set a first bit in each of the fixed plurality of page table entries indicating whether or not the fixed plurality of pages is to be treated as one combined page having a second page size larger than the first page size.