Mapping between virtual and physical address in memory paging

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In some system, paging mapped a virtual address (a8b43f​​)16 to a physical address (13efd43f)16.

What can be inferred about the page size?

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Is the answer "nothing" an acceptable answer ? – nos
@nos I'm afraid it's not an acceptable answer. Please see the updated question. – syntagma
That's quite unfortunate, since you can't tell anything about page size from this piece of information. – nos

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While this is not enough information to determine anything for certain, you can infer an upper limit on the page size by noting that the lower 13 bits of both addresses are the same. As we know the page index is the lower x bits of the address, if we find the maximum page index, we can determine the maximum page size. 0x00A8B43F and 0x13EFD43F share the same lower 13-bits ('b1_0100_0011_1111). Thus, the maximum the page size can be is 2^13 words, or 8 kwords. If the memory is byte addressable, this means a page size of 8KB.

However, without more information, knowing the exact page size is not possible as the shared bits might have come from a convenient mapping.