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From: "Mark Habersack" <grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Organization: PPP (Pesticide Powered Pumpkins)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 14:27:05 +0100
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Subject: Re: Interrupt handlers and page locking 
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Once upon a time (on  2 Apr 97 at 11:20) Eli Zaretskii said:

> > > 	Also, in my program, I -know- I don't have some parts of the interrupt
> > > handler code and data locked, yet I never get page fault errors. How do
> > > I force a page fault if it is possible to happen?
> > >
> > 
> > Try loading lots of TSR's, and run your program under a debugger. 
> 
> No amount of TSRs will cause your DJGPP program to page, because TSRs all
> load into conventional memory whereas the absolute majority of DJGPP
> installations use extended memory to load data and code of DJGPP programs.
With DPMI 1.0 it would be possible to allocate a single page, mark it as 
non-present or not-commited and then reference the memory area - this would 
generate a page fault. Probably (I haven't tried it) it is possible to do it 
with DPMI 0.9 as well: allocate some linear memory (__dpmi_allocate_memory), 
allocate LDT descriptor and set its base to match the linear address of the 
just allocated memory, deallocate memory (which *should* only mark the page 
as available!) and reference the segment. This **should** cause PF but may 
also generate a mere GPF (I don't think so, but it might). Again, I haven't 
tried it - it's taken off the top of my head.
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