FreeBSD Manual Pages
MLOCKALL(2) BSD System Calls Manual MLOCKALL(2) NAME mlockall, munlockall -- lock (unlock) the address space of a process LIBRARY Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS #include <sys/mman.h> int mlockall(int flags); int munlockall(void); DESCRIPTION The mlockall() system call locks into memory the physical pages associ- ated with the address space of a process until the address space is un- locked, the process exits, or execs another program image. The following flags affect the behavior of mlockall(): MCL_CURRENT Lock all pages currently mapped into the process's address space. MCL_FUTURE Lock all pages mapped into the process's address space in the future, at the time the mapping is established. Note that this may cause future mappings to fail if those map- pings cause resource limits to be exceeded. Since physical memory is a potentially scarce resource, processes are limited in how much they can lock down. A single process can lock the minimum of a system-wide "wired pages" limit and the per-process RLIMIT_MEMLOCK resource limit. The munlockall() call unlocks any locked memory regions in the process address space. Any regions mapped after an munlockall() call will not be locked. RETURN VALUES A return value of 0 indicates that the call succeeded and all pages in the range have either been locked or unlocked. A return value of -1 in- dicates an error occurred and the locked status of all pages in the range remains unchanged. In this case, the global location errno is set to in- dicate the error. ERRORS mlockall() will fail if: [EINVAL] The flags argument is zero, or includes unimplemented flags. [ENOMEM] Locking the indicated range would exceed either the system or per-process limit for locked memory. [EAGAIN] Some or all of the memory mapped into the process's address space could not be locked when the call was made. [EPERM] The calling process does not have the appropriate privilege to perform the requested operation. SEE ALSO mincore(2), mlock(2), mmap(2), munmap(2), setrlimit(2) STANDARDS The mlockall() and munlockall() functions are believed to conform to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 ("POSIX.1"). HISTORY The mlockall() and munlockall() functions first appeared in FreeBSD 5.1. BUGS The per-process resource limit is a limit on the amount of virtual memory locked, while the system-wide limit is for the number of locked physical pages. Hence a process with two distinct locked mappings of the same physical page counts as 2 pages against the per-process limit and as only a single page in the system limit. BSD June 12, 1999 BSD
NAME | LIBRARY | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUES | ERRORS | SEE ALSO | STANDARDS | HISTORY | BUGS
Want to link to this manual page? Use this URL:
<https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=munlockall&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+8.2-RELEASE+and+Ports>