Re: Patched Programs - Yet another spin

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From: mi400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mi400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Dave McKenzie
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 12:07 PM
To: MI Programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [MI400] Patched Programs - Yet another spin


>The hardware page table is a table in memory where the hardware keeps
>track of the pages of memory, and includes the storage protection bits
>and the NEx bit.  You can see the table entry for a given virtual
>address with STRSST like this:

>Opt
>  1 - Start a service tool
>  4 - Display/Alter/Dump
>  1 - Display/Alter storage
>  2 - Licensed Internal Code (LIC) data
>14 - Advanced analysis
>select 1 ADDRESSINFO
>enter a virtual address, like 1a76b86d3f000000
>F10 to page right to see the NEx bit.

neat. thank you.

>I don't think changing object type of a *usrspc to *pgm would have any
>effect on the NEx bit.

what about changing it from *usrspc to *pgm.  Then save to savf. Then
restore it. The theory being the page table entries are created when an
object is restored to the system. If the system sees the *usrspc as a *pgm,
then it will create the page table entry for that object as executable.

-Steve