MEMORY_BASIC_INFORMATION structure (ntifs.h)

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Contains information about a range of pages in the virtual address space of a process. The ZwQueryVirtualMemory routine uses this structure.

Syntax

typedef struct _MEMORY_BASIC_INFORMATION {
  PVOID  BaseAddress;
  PVOID  AllocationBase;
  ULONG  AllocationProtect;
  USHORT PartitionId;
  SIZE_T RegionSize;
  ULONG  State;
  ULONG  Protect;
  ULONG  Type;
} MEMORY_BASIC_INFORMATION, *PMEMORY_BASIC_INFORMATION;

Members

BaseAddress

A pointer to the base address of the region of pages.

AllocationBase

A pointer to the base address of a range of allocated pages. The page pointed to by the BaseAddress member is contained within this allocation range.

AllocationProtect

The memory protection option when the region was initially allocated. This member can be one of the following constants defined in wdm.h, or 0 if the caller does not have access.

Value Meaning
PAGE_NOACCESS 0x01 No access to the region of pages is allowed. An attempt to read, write, or execute within the region results in an access violation.
PAGE_EXECUTE 0x10 Execute access to the region of pages is allowed. An attempt to read or write within the region results in an access violation.
PAGE_READONLY 0x02 Read-only and execute access to the region of pages is allowed. An attempt to write within the region results in an access violation.
PAGE_READWRITE 0x04 Read, write, and execute access to the region of pages is allowed. If write access to the underlying section is allowed, then a single copy of the pages are shared. Otherwise, the pages are shared read-only/copy-on-write.
PAGE_GUARD 0x100 Read, write, and execute access to the region of pages is allowed; however, access to the region causes a "guard region entered" condition to be raised in the subject process.
PAGE_NOCACHE 0x200 Disable the placement of committed pages into the data cache.
PAGE_WRITECOMBINE 0x400 Disable the placement of committed pages into the data cache, combine the writes as well.

PartitionId

Reserved for system use.

RegionSize

The size of the region in bytes beginning at the base address in which all pages have identical attributes.

State

The state of the pages in the region. This member can be one of the following values.

State Meaning
MEM_COMMIT 0x1000 Indicates committed pages for which physical storage has been allocated, either in memory or in the paging file on disk.
MEM_FREE 0x10000 Indicates free pages not accessible to the calling process and available to be allocated.
MEM_RESERVE 0x2000 Indicates reserved pages where a range of the process's virtual address space is reserved without any physical storage being allocated.

Protect

The access protection of the pages in the region. This member is one of the values listed for the AllocationProtect member.

Type

The type of pages in the region. The following types are defined.

Type Meaning
MEM_IMAGE 0x1000000 Indicates that the memory pages within the region are mapped into the view of an image section.
MEM_MAPPED 0x40000 Indicates that the memory pages within the region are mapped into the view of a section.
MEM_PRIVATE 0x20000 Indicates that the memory pages within the region are private (that is, not shared by other processes).

Requirements

Requirement Value
Minimum supported client Windows 10
Header ntifs.h

See also

ZwQueryVirtualMemory