Agent skill

Virtual Memory Paging And Tlb

by mohitmishra786 in mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills

Virtual memory skill for paging, page tables, and TLB. An agent skill from mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills.

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Install Virtual Memory Paging And Tlb

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill virtual-memory-paging-and-tlb -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills virtual-memory-paging-and-tlb --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/computer-architecture/virtual-memory-paging-and-tlb .claude/skills/virtual-memory-paging-and-tlb && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
virtual-memory-paging-and-tlb
GitHub stars
252
Token cost
~723 tokens
SKILL.md length
249 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
138
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Virtual memory skill for paging, page tables, and TLB. An agent skill from mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills.

  • Works in 7 steps: Translation overview → Page table (x86-64 4-level example) → Page fault types (simplified) → …
  • Explaining page faults
  • SKILL.md covers Purpose, When to Use, Workflow and Common Problems, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Virtual Memory Paging And Tlb is an agent skill from mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills. Virtual memory skill for paging, page tables, and TLB. Use when explaining page faults, multi-level page tables, TLB behavior, or virtual vs physical addressing. Activates on queries about virtual memory, page table, TLB, page fault, mmap paging, or x86-64 paging.

Its SKILL.md is about 720 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: A curated suite of AI agent skills for systems and low-level programming with C/C++, Rust, and Zig toolchains, covering compilers, debuggers, profilers, build systems…. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Explaining page faults
  • Multi-level page tables
  • Virtual vs physical addressing

Example prompts

  • “/virtual-memory-paging-and-tlb”

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Translation overview
  2. Page table (x86-64 4-level example)
  3. Page fault types (simplified)
  4. TLB pressure
  5. Embedded contrast (Cortex-M)
  6. Userspace inspection (Linux)
  7. Agent usage

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit bdc5847. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are bash).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Virtual Memory Paging And Tlb loads about 723 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 74 tokens; SKILL.md has 249 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~74
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~723

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills at commit bdc5847, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitmishra786). 249 words, ~723 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/virtual-memory-paging-and-tlb/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
virtual-memory-paging-and-tlb
description
Virtual memory skill for paging, page tables, and TLB. Use when explaining page faults, multi-level page tables, TLB behavior, or virtual vs physical addressing. Activates on queries about virtual memory, page table, TLB, page fault, mmap paging, or x86-64 paging.

Virtual Memory, Paging, and TLB

Purpose

Explain virtual memory: paging, multi-level page tables, TLB role, page faults, and address translation — bridging OS kernels, embedded MPU, and performance analysis.

When to Use

  • Understanding mmap, brk, and demand paging
  • Debugging segfaults and guard pages
  • Huge pages / TLB pressure tuning
  • Contrasting Cortex-M MPU with full MMU systems

Workflow

1. Translation overview
Virtual address (VA)
├── TLB lookup → physical on hit
└── TLB miss → page table walk → fill TLB
        ├── valid PTE → physical address
        └── invalid → page fault (OS handles)
2. Page table (x86-64 4-level example)
CR3 → PML4 → PDPT → PD → PT → physical frame

Linux on x86_64 uses 4 KiB pages (default) and optional 2 MiB / 1 GiB huge pages.

3. Page fault types (simplified)
FaultTypical cause
MajorDisk read — file-backed page not in RAM
MinorZero-fill or COW break
ProtectionUser access to kernel page, W^X violation
bash
# Linux page fault stats
grep pgfault /proc/vmstat
4. TLB pressure

Large sparse address spaces + random pointer chasing → TLB misses dominate.

Mitigations:

  • mmap huge pages (MAP_HUGETLB, madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE))
  • Smaller working set / better locality
  • numactl --membind for NUMA
5. Embedded contrast (Cortex-M)

Many MCUs use MPU (region-based) not full paging — no TLB, fixed region count. Application processors use MMU + OS.

See skills/platform/riscv-privileged for Sv39/Sv48.

6. Userspace inspection (Linux)
bash
cat /proc/self/maps
pmap -x $$
7. Agent usage
/virtual-memory-paging-and-tlb Explain why 4 KiB random access hurts TLB and hugepage helps

Common Problems

SymptomCauseFix
SegfaultUnmapped VAFix pointer; check maps
Slow mmap workloadTLB thrashingHuge pages; reduce regions
COW spike after forkShared pages split on writeExpected; consider MAP_POPULATE
W^X faultJIT without mprotect danceSeparate RW and RX mappings
Wrong phys on MCUNo MMU — linear mapUse linker script addresses
  • skills/computer-architecture/memory-hierarchy-and-caches — cache after translation
  • skills/kernel-dev/kernel-memory-management — kernel page allocator
  • skills/kernel/os-dev-scratch — build paging from scratch
  • skills/platform/riscv-privileged — Sv39 page tables
  • skills/allocators/numa-programming — NUMA and migration

© mohitmishra786, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/computer-architecture/virtual-memory-paging-and-tlb of mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit bdc5847

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Questions about Virtual Memory Paging And Tlb

What does Virtual Memory Paging And Tlb do?

Virtual memory skill for paging, page tables, and TLB. An agent skill from mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills. Virtual Memory Paging And Tlb is an agent skill from mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills. Virtual memory skill for paging, page tables, and TLB.

When should I use Virtual Memory Paging And Tlb?

Virtual Memory Paging And Tlb fits situations like: explaining page faults; multi-level page tables; virtual vs physical addressing.

How do I install Virtual Memory Paging And Tlb in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill virtual-memory-paging-and-tlb -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/computer-architecture/virtual-memory-paging-and-tlb in mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills) into .claude/skills/virtual-memory-paging-and-tlb in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Virtual Memory Paging And Tlb in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill virtual-memory-paging-and-tlb -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/computer-architecture/virtual-memory-paging-and-tlb in mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills) into .agents/skills/virtual-memory-paging-and-tlb in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Virtual Memory Paging And Tlb in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill virtual-memory-paging-and-tlb -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/virtual-memory-paging-and-tlb, .gemini/skills/virtual-memory-paging-and-tlb, .github/skills/virtual-memory-paging-and-tlb and .opencode/skills/virtual-memory-paging-and-tlb in your project.

What does Virtual Memory Paging And Tlb need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Virtual Memory Paging And Tlb is instructions for the agent only.

Does Virtual Memory Paging And Tlb access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Virtual Memory Paging And Tlb safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Virtual Memory Paging And Tlb use?

Virtual Memory Paging And Tlb is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Virtual Memory Paging And Tlb use?

About 723 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Virtual Memory Paging And Tlb?

mohitmishra786 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills, which has 252 GitHub stars. The repository holds 138 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on June 27, 2026.

Source: mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.