Abstract: An electronic device and a method of controlling the same are provided. The electronic device includes a new memory configured to include a main memory region and a file system region and a processor configured to perform computing and perform checkpointing on the main memory region and the file system region depending on a predetermined condition, wherein the main memory region includes a checkpoint table to which information on a page in which data are changed is written, and the processor initializes the checkpoint table and sets an attribute of pages of the main memory region to read-only at the time of performing the checkpointing on the main memory region.