MEMORY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING DIFFERENT PAGE TABLES FOR DIFFERENT PRIVILEGE LEVELS

An apparatus and method for managing different page tables for different privilege levels. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: a first control register to store a first base address associated with program code executed at a first privilege level; a second control register to store a second base address associated with program code executed at a second privilege level lower than the first privilege level; and address translation circuitry to identify a first base translation table using the first base address responsive to a first address translation request originating from the program code executed at the first privilege level and to identify a second base translation table using the second base address responsive to a second address translation request originating from the program code executed at the second privilege level.