MPI_Win_allocate_shared(3) MPI MPI_Win_allocate_shared(3) NAME MPI_Win_allocate_shared - Create an MPI Window object for one-sided commu- nication and shared memory access, and allocate memory at each process SYNOPSIS int MPI_Win_allocate_shared(MPI_Aint size, int disp_unit, MPI_Info info, MPI_Comm comm, void *baseptr, MPI_Win *win) int MPI_Win_allocate_shared_c(MPI_Aint size, MPI_Aint disp_unit, MPI_Info info, MPI_Comm comm, void *baseptr, MPI_Win *win) INPUT PARAMETERS size - size of local window in bytes (non-negative integer) disp_unit - local unit size for displacements, in bytes (positive integer) info - info argument (handle) comm - intra-communicator (handle) OUTPUT PARAMETERS baseptr - address of local allocated window segment (choice) win - window object returned by the call (handle) This is a collective call executed by all processes in the group of comm. On each process i, it allocates memory of at least size bytes that is shared among all processes in comm, and returns a pointer to the locally allocated segment in baseptr that can be used for load/store accesses on the calling process. The locally allocated memory can be the target of load/store accesses by remote processes; the base pointers for other processes can be queried using the func- tion MPI_Win_shared_query . The call also returns a window object that can be used by all processes in comm to perform RMA operations. The size argument may be different at each process and size = 0 is valid. It is the user's responsibility to ensure that the communicator comm represents a group of processes that can create a shared memory segment that can be accessed by all processes in the group. The allocated memory is contiguous across process ranks unless the info key al- loc_shared_noncontig is specified. Contiguous across process ranks means that the first address in the memory segment of process i is consecutive with the last address in the memory segment of process i - 1. This may enable the user to calculate remote address offsets with local information only. THREAD AND INTERRUPT SAFETY This routine is thread-safe. This means that this routine may be safely used by multiple threads without the need for any user-provided thread locks. However, the routine is not interrupt safe. Typically, this is due to the use of memory allocation routines such as malloc or other non-MPICH runtime routines that are themselves not interrupt-safe. NOTES FOR FORTRAN All MPI routines in Fortran (except for MPI_WTIME and MPI_WTICK ) have an additional argument ierr at the end of the argument list. ierr is an inte- ger and has the same meaning as the return value of the routine in C. In Fortran, MPI routines are subroutines, and are invoked with the call state- ment. All MPI objects (e.g., MPI_Datatype , MPI_Comm ) are of type INTEGER in Fortran. ERRORS All MPI routines (except MPI_Wtime and MPI_Wtick ) return an error value; C routines as the value of the function and Fortran routines in the last ar- gument. Before the value is returned, the current MPI error handler is called. By default, this error handler aborts the MPI job. The error han- dler may be changed with MPI_Comm_set_errhandler (for communicators), MPI_File_set_errhandler (for files), and MPI_Win_set_errhandler (for RMA windows). The MPI-1 routine MPI_Errhandler_set may be used but its use is deprecated. The predefined error handler MPI_ERRORS_RETURN may be used to cause error values to be returned. Note that MPI does not guarantee that an MPI program can continue past an error; however, MPI implementations will attempt to continue whenever possible. MPI_SUCCESS - No error; MPI routine completed successfully. MPI_ERR_ARG - Invalid argument. Some argument is invalid and is not identified by a specific error class (e.g., MPI_ERR_RANK ). MPI_ERR_COMM - Invalid communicator. A common error is to use a null communica- tor in a call (not even allowed in MPI_Comm_rank ). MPI_ERR_DISP - MPI_ERR_INFO - Invalid Info MPI_ERR_SIZE - MPI_ERR_OTHER - Other error; use MPI_Error_string to get more information about this error code. SEE ALSO MPI_Win_allocate MPI_Win_create MPI_Win_create_dynamic MPI_Win_free MPI_Win_shared_query 4/10/2026 MPI_Win_allocate_shared(3)
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