Locking Pages

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You can tell the system to associate a particular virtual memory page with a real page frame and keep it that way -- i.e. cause the page to be paged in if it isn't already and mark it so it will never be paged out and consequently will never cause a page fault. This is called locking a page.

The functions in this chapter lock and unlock the calling process' pages.

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• Why Lock Pages :: Reasons to read this section.
• Locked Memory Details :: Everything you need to know locked memory
• Page Lock Functions :: Here's how to do it.