Unix Unix Memory Management - Technical Questions and Answers

31.	Name two paging states for a page in memory?
	Answer: The two paging states are: The page is aging and is not yet eligible for swapping, The page is eligible for swapping but not yet eligible for reassignment to other virtual address space. Workspace Report errors ... Name : Email: View Answer

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What are the phases of swapping a page from the memory?

33.	What is page fault? Its types?
	Answer: Page fault refers to the situation of not having a page in the main memory when any process references it. There are two types of page fault : Validity fault, Protection fault. Workspace Report errors ... Name : Email: View Answer

34.	In what way the Fault Handlers and the Interrupt handlers are different?
	Answer: Fault handlers are also an interrupt handler with an exception that the interrupt handlers cannot sleep. Fault handlers sleep in the context of the process that caused the memory fault. The fault refers to the running process and no arbitrary processes are put to sleep. Workspace Report errors ... Name : Email: View Answer

35.	What is validity fault?
	Answer: If a process referring a page in the main memory whose valid bit is not set, it results in validity fault. The valid bit is not set for those pages: that are outside the virtual address space of a process, that are the part of the virtual address space of the process but no physical address is assigned to it. Workspace Report errors ... Name : Email: View Answer

36.	What does the swapping system do if it identifies the illegal page for swapping?
	Answer: If the disk block descriptor does not contain any record of the faulted page, then this causes the attempted memory reference is invalid and the kernel sends a "Segmentation violation" signal to the offending process. This happens when the swapping system identifies any invalid memory reference. Workspace Report errors ... Name : Email: View Answer

37.	What are states that the page can be in, after causing a page fault?
	Answer: On a swap device and not in memory, On the free page list in the main memory, In an executable file, Marked "demand zero", Marked "demand fill" Workspace Report errors ... Name : Email: View Answer

38.	In what way the validity fault handler concludes?
	Answer: It sets the valid bit of the page by clearing the modify bit. It recalculates the process priority. Workspace Report errors ... Name : Email: View Answer

39.	At what mode the fault handler executes?
	Answer: At the Kernel Mode. Workspace Report errors ... Name : Email: View Answer

40.	What do you mean by the protection fault?
	Answer: Protection fault refers to the process accessing the pages, which do not have the access permission. A process also incur the protection fault when it attempts to write a page whose copy on write bit was set during the fork() system call. Workspace Report errors ... Name : Email: View Answer