UNIX Programming and Technical

Q. In what way the Fault Handlers and the Interrupt handlers are different?

A. Fault handlers are also an interrupt handler with an exception that the interrupt handlers cannot sleep. Fault handlers sleep in the context of the process that caused the memory fault. The fault refers to the running process and no arbitrary processes are put to sleep.

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Q. What is page fault? Its types?

A. Page fault refers to the situation of not having a page in the main memory when any process references it. There are two types of page fault :Validity fault, Protection fault.
Q. What is validity fault?

A. If a process referring a page in the main memory whose valid bit is not set, it results in validity fault.
The valid bit is not set for those pages:
that are outside the virtual address space of a process,
that are the part of the virtual address space of the process but no physical address is assigned to it.