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IJMLC 2019 Vol.9(4): 387-392 ISSN: 2010-3700
DOI: 10.18178/ijmlc.2019.9.4.815

OFF2F: A New Object File Format for Virtual Memory Systems to Support Volatile/non-Volatile Memory-Mixed Environment

Masaya Sato and Hideo Taniguchi

Abstract—Research on non-volatile memory has advanced in recent years. Non-volatile memory is not installed on practical computers; however, it will appear in the near future. This study proposes a new executable file format to enable a virtual memory system to support program execution on a volatile and non-volatile memory-mixed computer. To be more precise, this study proposes OFF2F: a new object file format consisting of 2 files, which leverages the characteristics of volatile and non-volatile memories. OFF2F focuses on access form when a program is loaded into memory at program execution. This paper presents evaluation results in terms of reduction of page fault processing time.

Index Terms—Volatile memory, executable file format, virtual memory system, demand paging, page fault.

The authors are with Okayama University, Okayama, 7008530 Japan (e-mail: sato@cs.okayama-u.ac.jp, tani@cs.okayama-u.ac.jp).

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Cite: Masaya Sato and Hideo Taniguchi, "OFF2F: A New Object File Format for Virtual Memory Systems to Support Volatile/non-Volatile Memory-Mixed Environment," International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 387-392, 2019.

Copyright © 2019 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).

General Information

  • E-ISSN: 2972-368X
  • Abbreviated Title: Int. J. Mach. Learn.
  • Frequency: Quaterly
  • DOI: 10.18178/IJML
  • Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Lin Huang
  • Executive Editor:  Ms. Cherry L. Chen
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  • E-mail: ijml@ejournal.net


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