What we have:
- Maximum number of pagefiles: 16
- Minimum pagefile size: 256 pages (1 MB when page size = 4096 bytes)
- Maximum pagefile size:
* 32-bit platforms: (1024 * 1024 - 1) pages (~ 4095 MB)
* x86 with PAE support: same size as for AMD x64
* x64 platform: (4 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 - 1) pages (~ 16 TB)
* IA64 platform: (8 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 - 1) pages (~ 32 TB)
Those are the values as supported and verified by the NT kernel.
Now, user-mode programs (including SMSS.EXE) have different opinions
on these, namely, they consider estimates directly in MB, respectively:
4095 MB, (16 * 1024 * 1024) MB, and (32 * 1024 * 1024) MB
(verified on Win2k3 and Win7 32 and 64 bits).
Also here, the minimum pagefile size is set to 2 MB.
Starting Windows 8+ (and 10), those values change slightly, and are
still not fully synchronized between NTOS:MM and SMSS. Finally, while
(x86 PAE and) AMD64 and ARM64 seem to share the maximum pagefile
size limit, 32-bit ARMv7 appears to use different limits than regular
x86 (2 GB instead of 4).
Please keep those values as they are for NT compatibility!
See the following references:
https://www.geoffchappell.com/studies/windows/km/ntoskrnl/api/mm/modwrite/create.htmhttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ask-the-performance-team/what-is-the-page-file-for-anyway/ba-p/372608
+ Manual extraction of the values from different NT 6.2,6.3,10 builds.
[SMSS] Fill out in particular the x86-specific case for PAE.
[NTOS:MM] Some cleanup in the NtCreatePagingFile() code, namely:
- Clarify some comments;
- Validate the lower and upper bounds of the Minimum and Maximum sizes
(based on Windows behaviour as explained by Geoff + manual tests).
- Open the pagefile in case-insensitive;
- Simplify the loop that finds an existing matching pagefile;
- Simplify some failure exit paths;
- Add a "Missing validation steps TODO" comment block explaining the
existing code-hole.
Previously, when creating a file section, Mm requested Cc to cache the file, then Cc would request pages from Mm, then Mm would request them back to serve its file-mapping role
Now, Mm does it all by itself. If file cahcing is requested by the FS driver, then Cc creates a file mapping and uses that to serve its purpose.
This is a rewrite of Cc
- Change INIT_FUNCTION and INIT_SECTION to CODE_SEG("INIT") and DATA_SEG("INIT") respectively
- Remove INIT_FUNCTION from function prototypes
- Remove alloc_text pragma calls as they are not needed anymore
- Correctly probe the FileName user pointer before capturing its contents.
- A paging file name with zero length is invalid too.
- Remember (TODO!) in the code that the lower bounds of the Safe*Size values
need to be checked too!
It's hardly understandable and doesn't really makes sense.
Furthermore, it breaks compatibility with 3rd party FSD that
don't implement such FSCTL.
Obviously, Windows doesn't do this.
