Committing Physical Storage Within a Region
To use a reserved region of address space, you must allocate physical storage and then map this storage to the reserved region. This process is called committing physical storage. Physical storage is always committed in pages. To commit physical storage to a reserved region, you again call the VirtualAlloc function.
When you commit physical storage to regions, you do not have to commit physical storage to the entire region. For example, you can reserve a region that is 64 KB and then commit physical storage to the second and fourth pages within the region. Figure 13-1 shows what a process’ address space might look like. Notice that the address space is different depending on which CPU platform you’re ...
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