What Makes It Page?: The Windows 7 (x64) Virtual Memory Manager (Paperback)

This is a book for curious people. It attempts to answer the basic question “how does it work?” As such, it does not explain how to call documented APIs and DDIs to accomplish some specific goal. There is plenty of information available on these subjects, including the MSDN Library, the WDK documentation and several excellent books. Rather, its purpose is to analyze how the Virtual Memory Manager works, simply because it is something worth knowing. With a certain mindset, it might even be something fun to know. Even though this book gives a fairly detailed description of the Virtual Memory Manager, it is not reserved for experienced kernel level programmers. Parts I and II provide information on the x64 processor and enough details on kernel mode code execution to help readers approaching these subjects for the first time. This book describes the Windows 7 x64 implementation of the Virtual Memory Manager. All of the analysis and experiments have been performed on this particular version only.

這是一本針對好奇心旺盛的人的書籍。它試圖回答基本問題「它是如何運作的？」因此，它不解釋如何調用已記錄的API和DDI來實現特定目標。有很多關於這些主題的資訊可供參考，包括MSDN Library、WDK文檔和幾本優秀的書籍。相反，它的目的是分析虛擬記憶體管理器的運作方式，僅僅因為這是值得了解的事情。以一種特定的心態，這甚至可能是一件有趣的事情。儘管這本書對虛擬記憶體管理器進行了相當詳細的描述，但並不僅僅適用於有經驗的內核級程式設計師。第一部分和第二部分提供了關於x64處理器的資訊，以及有足夠細節的內核模式代碼執行資訊，以幫助初次接觸這些主題的讀者。本書描述了Windows 7 x64版本的虛擬記憶體管理器。所有的分析和實驗都是在這個特定版本上進行的。