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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2016
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Chanyoung Hwang, Seoul, KR;
Soonwan Kwon, Yongin-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
An electronic device and a method for managing memory thereof are disclosed. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for an electronic device to manage memory, comprising: determining whether a physical address mapped to a virtual address is consecutive with respect to at least two entries belonging to a plurality of entries having virtual addresses and physical addresses mapped and including a consecutive virtual address; merging entries in which the virtual address and the physical address are consecutive into one entry if, as a result of the determination, the physical addresses of the at least entries are consecutive; and storing the merged entry in first memory.