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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:55:15 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:55:15 -0400 |
| commit | 253e67c8b3a72b3a4757fdbc5845297628db0a4a (patch) | |
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diff --git a/static/netbsd/man2/mlock.2 b/static/netbsd/man2/mlock.2 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f41e7c9d --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man2/mlock.2 @@ -0,0 +1,167 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: mlock.2,v 1.22 2015/02/08 14:10:28 wiz Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)mlock.2 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93 +.\" +.Dd February 8, 2015 +.Dt MLOCK 2 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm mlock , +.Nm munlock +.Nd lock (unlock) physical pages in memory +.Sh LIBRARY +.Lb libc +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In sys/mman.h +.Ft int +.Fn mlock "void *addr" "size_t len" +.Ft int +.Fn munlock "void *addr" "size_t len" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm mlock +system call +locks into memory the physical pages associated with the virtual address +range starting at +.Fa addr +for +.Fa len +bytes. +The +.Nm munlock +call unlocks pages previously locked by one or more +.Nm mlock +calls. +The entire range of memory must be allocated. +.Pp +After an +.Nm mlock +call, the indicated pages will cause neither a non-resident page +nor address-translation fault until they are unlocked. +They may still cause protection-violation faults or TLB-miss faults on +architectures with software-managed TLBs. +The physical pages remain in memory until all locked mappings for the pages +are removed. +Multiple processes may have the same physical pages locked via their own +virtual address mappings. +A single process may likewise have pages multiply-locked via different virtual +mappings of the same pages or via nested +.Nm mlock +calls on the same address range. +Unlocking is performed explicitly by +.Nm munlock +or implicitly by a call to +.Nm munmap +which deallocates the unmapped address range. +Locked mappings are not inherited by the child process after a +.Xr fork 2 . +.Pp +Since physical memory is a potentially scarce resource, processes are +limited in how much they can lock down. +A single process can +.Nm mlock +the minimum of +a system-wide ``wired pages'' limit and +the per-process +.Li RLIMIT_MEMLOCK +resource limit. +.Pp +Portable code should ensure that the +.Fa addr +and +.Fa len +parameters are aligned to a multiple of the page size, even though the +.Nx +implementation will round as necessary. +.Sh 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 indicates an error occurred and the locked +status of all pages in the range remains unchanged. +In this case, the global location +.Va errno +is set to indicate the error. +.Sh ERRORS +.Fn mlock +will fail if: +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EAGAIN +Locking the indicated range would exceed either the system or per-process +limit for locked memory. +.It Bq Er EINVAL +The address or length given is not page aligned and the implementation does +not round. +.It Bq Er ENOMEM +Some portion of the indicated address range is not allocated. +There was an error faulting/mapping a page. +.It Bq Er EPERM +.Fn mlock +was called by non-root on an architecture where locked page accounting +is not implemented. +.Pp +.El +.Fn munlock +will fail if: +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EINVAL +The address or length given is not page aligned and the implementation does +not round. +.It Bq Er ENOMEM +Some portion of the indicated address range is not allocated. +Some portion of the indicated address range is not locked. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr fork 2 , +.Xr mincore 2 , +.Xr mmap 2 , +.Xr munmap 2 , +.Xr setrlimit 2 , +.Xr getpagesize 3 +.Sh STANDARDS +The +.Fn mlock +and +.Fn munlock +functions conform to +.St -p1003.1b-93 . +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Fn mlock +and +.Fn munlock +functions first appeared in +.Bx 4.4 . +.Sh 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. |
