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37 .Nd lock (unlock) physical pages in memory
43 .Fn mlock "const void *addr" "size_t len"
45 .Fn munlock "const void *addr" "size_t len"
50 locks into memory the physical pages associated with the virtual address
58 system call unlocks pages previously locked by one or more
63 argument should be aligned to a multiple of the page size.
66 argument is not a multiple of the page size, it will be rounded up
68 The entire range must be allocated.
72 system call, the indicated pages will cause neither a non-resident page
73 nor address-translation fault until they are unlocked.
74 They may still cause protection-violation faults or TLB-miss faults on
75 architectures with software-managed TLBs.
76 The physical pages remain in memory until all locked mappings for the pages
78 Multiple processes may have the same physical pages locked via their own
79 virtual address mappings.
80 A single process may likewise have pages multiply-locked via different virtual
81 mappings of the same pages or via nested
83 calls on the same address range.
84 Unlocking is performed explicitly by
86 or implicitly by a call to
88 which deallocates the unmapped address range.
89 Locked mappings are not inherited by the child process after a
92 Since physical memory is a potentially scarce resource, processes are
93 limited in how much they can lock down.
97 a system-wide ``wired pages'' limit and
102 These calls are only available to the super-user.
106 If the call succeeds, all pages in the range become locked (unlocked);
107 otherwise the locked status of all pages in the range remains unchanged.
115 The caller is not the super-user.
117 The address given is not page aligned or the length is negative.
119 Locking the indicated range would exceed either the system or per-process
120 limit for locked memory.
122 Some portion of the indicated address range is not allocated.
123 There was an error faulting/mapping a page.
131 The caller is not the super-user.
133 The address given is not page aligned or the length is negative.
135 Some portion of the indicated address range is not allocated.
152 system calls first appeared in
155 Allocating too much wired memory can lead to a memory-allocation deadlock
156 which requires a reboot to recover from.
158 The per-process resource limit is a limit on the amount of virtual
159 memory locked, while the system-wide limit is for the number of locked
161 Hence a process with two distinct locked mappings of the same physical page
162 counts as 2 pages against the per-process limit and as only a single page
165 The per-process resource limit is not currently supported.