Lock Linear Region
Locks the specified linear address range.
Call With:
AX = 0600H
BX:CX = starting linear address of memory to lock
SI:DI = size of region to lock (bytes)
Returns:
if function successful
Carry flag= clear
if function unsuccessful
Carry flag= set
AX = error code
8013H physical memory unavailable
8017H lock count exceeded
8025H invalid linear address (unallocated
pages)
Notes:
o If the function returns an error, none of the memory has
been locked.
o If the specified region overlaps part of a page at the
beginning or end of the region, the page(s) will be
locked.
o This function may be called more than once for a given
page; the DPMI host maintains a lock count for each page.
o This function is ignored by DPMI implementations that do
not support virtual memory; the function will return the
Carry flag clear to indicate success, but has no other
effect. DPMI hosts which support virtual memory may also
choose to ignore this function, but such hosts must be
able to handle page faults transparently at arbitrary
points during a client's execution, including within
interrupt and exception handlers.