Symbian3/PDK/Source/GUID-6EF762B8-DE93-51C0-8A5D-89FC5289B7D0.dita
author Dominic Pinkman <Dominic.Pinkman@Nokia.com>
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:56:28 +0100
changeset 5 f345bda72bc4
parent 3 46218c8b8afa
child 14 578be2adaf3e
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Week 12 contribution of PDK documentation_content. See release notes for details. Fixes Bug 2054, Bug 1583, Bug 381, Bug 390, Bug 463, Bug 1897, Bug 344, Bug 1319, Bug 394, Bug 1520, Bug 1522, Bug 1892"

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<task xml:lang="en" id="GUID-6EF762B8-DE93-51C0-8A5D-89FC5289B7D0"><title>MMP Tutorial </title><shortdesc>This tutorial describes how to set the paging options for an individual executable.  </shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><taskbody> <context id="GUID-412D61DE-4334-5ACA-B231-0FD4987DA854"><p>The paging options are:</p><ul id="UL_D8F99583C95448238D57C50ECFA5BB0B"><li id="LI_CFB9F842F9B949D7B7239F19D41663B6">code paging</li><li id="LI_2E3FB77DD0A94611A41B58CB389DB95C">data paging</li><li id="LI_2A568122EAFD4AEFA5635CA75EA475CB">both code and data paging</li></ul><p>Making executables (either exe or dll) paged is the finest level of control of paging at runtime. In the order of precedence for paging keywords, the values in this file will be overridden by those in the oby file. </p> <p>          The following keywords are used to indicate whether the executable is
          unpaged or paged. If the executable is paged then the keywords indicate if code
          paging, data paging or both are to be used.</p><table id="GUID-DDE5C1CD-112D-54B8-A819-C95FA0A120DB"><tgroup cols="2"><colspec colname="col0"/><colspec colname="col1"/><tbody><row><entry><p> <b>Keyword</b>  </p> </entry> <entry><p> <b>Behaviour on Symbion OS v9.6 and later</b>  </p> </entry> </row> <row><entry><p>paged </p> </entry> <entry><p>Enables code and data paging </p> </entry> </row> <row><entry><p>unpaged </p> </entry> <entry><p>Disables code and data paging </p> </entry> </row> <row><entry><p>pagedcode </p> </entry> <entry><p>Enables code paging </p> </entry> </row> <row><entry><p>unpagedcode </p> </entry> <entry><p>Disables code paging </p> </entry> </row> <row><entry><p>pageddata </p> </entry> <entry><p>Enables data paging </p> </entry> </row> <row><entry><p>unpageddata </p> </entry> <entry><p>Disables data paging </p> </entry> </row> </tbody> </tgroup> </table><p>When using the above keywords, the following points must be considered. </p><ul id="UL_BF3F9DEA52E2443AA028E182B752D96B"><li id="LI_1494C506348640EE8EBB52377EA0F2ED">The keywords <i>pageddata</i> and <i>unpageddata</i> do not make sense for files that are not executable binaries, and will be ignored. </li><li id="LI_0D6678B8EFCE46AA9F5E0BD3BBA34116">The use of the <i>paged</i>, <i>unpaged</i>, <i>pagedcode</i> and <i>unpagedcode</i> keywords only states the default paging behaviour of the data that is to paged by the executable. The behaviour can be overridden by using the <xref href="GUID-51F7DBCF-BFB6-31F9-8882-5D263A1AD4B4.dita"><apiname>TChunkCreateInfo</apiname></xref>, <xref href="GUID-326A2F4D-0E99-31C0-A35D-E8BF45913F07.dita"><apiname>RChunk</apiname></xref> and <xref href="GUID-3DCB92FB-9C74-3B73-B229-BF7944087EE9.dita"><apiname>TChunkHeapCreateInfo</apiname></xref> API. </li><li id="LI_62B6ADBE30C4482D854B48C32713B741">The keywords in the table above, should appear on a separate line on their own and with no arguments</li><li id="LI_A97184F27C5E4D7FADCBBFEE71551AA7">If the build tools are configured to compress executables while building them (this is the default behaviour), then executables marked with paged or the pagedcode keyword will be implicitly byte-pair compressed. </li><li id="LI_53B9F593A2354EB0BB81B86CE41E53A6">If a ROM/ROFS partition defines a <i>pagingoverride</i>, <i>codepagingoverride</i> or <i>datapagingoverride</i> as <i>defaultpaged</i> or <i>defaultunpaged</i>, then the pagability specified in the mmp file will be implemented.</li><li id="LI_DDD2067B2BF64D7FB0D22FBDCB5614AA">If a ROM/ROFS partition has defines <i>pagingoverride</i>, <i>codepagingoverride</i> or <i>datapagingoverride</i> as <i>nopaging</i> or <i>alwayspage</i>, then the pagability specified in the mmp file will be ignored. </li></ul></context>  <result id="GUID-66C2F1AC-E91D-524C-964E-C1F742F8E191"><p>Building the executable with the new keyword does not produce any errors or warnings. </p> </result> <example id="GUID-6D525725-8E22-55A9-8CD3-DFED9E1F09CB"><title>mmp file example</title> <p>Below is an example mmp file with paging: </p> <codeblock id="GUID-CFDB3A59-8379-5336-82F3-CB0463264844" xml:space="preserve">TARGET dummy.dll 
TARGETTYPE DLL 

UID 0x10003d3a 
VENDORID 0x12345678 

SOURCEPATH ../dummy 
SOURCE dummy1.cpp dummy2.cpp 

SYSTEMINCLUDE /epoc32/include 

LIBRARY euser.lib 

CAPABILITY PowerMgmt ReadDeviceData WriteDeviceData LocalServices ReadUserData WriteUserData 

UNPAGED</codeblock> <p>The above mmp file, specifies that the <filepath>dummy.dll</filepath> file is not going to use demand paging. </p> </example> </taskbody></task>