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== Recursive mapping ==
To make it easier to change the current address space's page map, you can map an entry of the highest page map level into itself
Recursive mapping wastes some virtual address space. This table shows the relative space used by the recursively mapped page table:
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The ''Recursive mapping'' column in the tables below shows the base address and offset to use to get to a particular page map level when the page map is recursively mapped as the ''last'' entry.
== Protected/compatibility mode (32-bit) page map ==
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