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30 .\" @(#)mlock.2 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
38 .Nd lock (unlock) physical pages in memory
44 .Fn mlock "void *addr" "size_t len"
46 .Fn munlock "void *addr" "size_t len"
51 locks into memory the physical pages associated with the virtual address
59 call unlocks pages previously locked by one or more
62 The entire range of memory must be allocated.
66 call, the indicated pages will cause neither a non-resident page
67 nor address-translation fault until they are unlocked.
68 They may still cause protection-violation faults or TLB-miss faults on
69 architectures with software-managed TLBs.
70 The physical pages remain in memory until all locked mappings for the pages
72 Multiple processes may have the same physical pages locked via their own
73 virtual address mappings.
74 A single process may likewise have pages multiply-locked via different virtual
75 mappings of the same pages or via nested
77 calls on the same address range.
78 Unlocking is performed explicitly by
80 or implicitly by a call to
82 which deallocates the unmapped address range.
83 Locked mappings are not inherited by the child process after a
86 Since physical memory is a potentially scarce resource, processes are
87 limited in how much they can lock down.
91 a system-wide ``wired pages'' limit and
96 Portable code should ensure that the
100 parameters are aligned to a multiple of the page size, even though the
102 implementation will round as necessary.
104 A return value of 0 indicates that the call
105 succeeded and all pages in the range have either been locked or unlocked.
106 A return value of \-1 indicates an error occurred and the locked
107 status of all pages in the range remains unchanged.
108 In this case, the global location
110 is set to indicate the error.
116 Locking the indicated range would exceed either the system or per-process
117 limit for locked memory.
119 The address or length given is not page aligned and the implementation does
122 Some portion of the indicated address range is not allocated.
123 There was an error faulting/mapping a page.
126 was called by non-root on an architecture where locked page accounting
134 The address or length given is not page aligned and the implementation does
137 Some portion of the indicated address range is not allocated.
138 Some portion of the indicated address range is not locked.
159 functions first appeared in
162 The per-process resource limit is a limit on the amount of virtual
163 memory locked, while the system-wide limit is for the number of locked
165 Hence a process with two distinct locked mappings of the same physical page
166 counts as 2 pages against the per-process limit and as only a single page