* Chris Ptacek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010330 09:45] wrote:
> I am developing a KLD and I am having problems getting a page fault. I am
> using a set "library" (basically a set of third party object files I build
> and then link in). This libarary requires its own chunk of memory that it
> manages and needs to be passed a pointer to that memory (and the size) when
> it is initialized. So during my load phase I malloc the memory (14M), at
> this point I can traverse the memory just fine using a for loop writing and
> reading from it as a test. However once I pass this memory into the
> "library" to use, I get a page fault error. Is there something I am missing
> here? What would be the possible causes of the page fault?
Page faults are caused by referencing memory that you shouldn't.
See: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kerneldebug.html
> Any and all help would be appreciated and if you could CC this account I
> would appreciate it (my FreeBSD mailing list subscriptions are from another
> account).
Next time offer a test snippet of code that demonstrates the problem.
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