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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.
| • 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. |