VMHandlers Interface

March 31, 1996
David Dion

The VMHandlers interface provides VM support to the OSF/1 server extensions. When the Syscall module catches a syscall event corresponding to a VM request, it is redirected to the VMHandlers module.

Not all procedures in the interface provide a complete Mach emulation. The following are implemented just enough for basic execution of the OSF/1 server:

  • vm_inherit
  • vm_region
  • vm_statistics
  • vm_map
  • vm_deallocate

    • The VMHandlers module relies somewhat on the VMTaskSupport interface. The VMHandlers module will soon be obsolete as the Mach VM extensions will provide exactly The VMHandlers interface is VMHandlers.i3.

    ddion@cs.washington.edu