MLOCKALL(3P)						     POSIX Programmer's Manual						      MLOCKALL(3P)

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NAME

       mlockall, munlockall - lock/unlock the address space of a process (REALTIME)

SYNOPSIS

       #include <sys/mman.h>

       int mlockall(int flags);
       int munlockall(void);

DESCRIPTION

       The mlockall() function shall cause all of the pages mapped by the address space of a process to be memory-resident until unlocked or until
       the  process  exits or execs another process image. The flags argument determines whether the pages to be locked are those currently mapped
       by the address space of the process, those that are mapped in the future, or both. The flags argument  is  constructed  from  the  bitwise-
       inclusive OR of one or more of the following symbolic constants, defined in <sys/mman.h>:

       MCL_CURRENT
	      Lock all of the pages currently mapped into the address space of the process.

       MCL_FUTURE
	      Lock all of the pages that become mapped into the address space of the process in the future, when those mappings are established.

       If MCL_FUTURE is specified, and the automatic locking of future mappings eventually causes the amount of locked memory to exceed the amount
       of available physical memory or any other implementation-defined limit, the behavior is implementation-defined. The  manner  in	which  the
       implementation informs the application of these situations is also implementation-defined.

       The  munlockall()  function  shall unlock all currently mapped pages of the address space of the process. Any pages that become mapped into
       the address space of the process after a call to munlockall() shall not be locked, unless there is an intervening call to mlockall() speci-
       fying  MCL_FUTURE or a subsequent call to mlockall() specifying MCL_CURRENT. If pages mapped into the address space of the process are also
       mapped into the address spaces of other processes and are locked by those processes, the locks established by the other processes shall	be
       unaffected by a call by this process to munlockall().

       Upon  successful  return  from the mlockall() function that specifies MCL_CURRENT, all currently mapped pages of the process' address space
       shall be memory-resident and locked. Upon return from the munlockall() function, all currently mapped pages of the process'  address  space
       shall be unlocked with respect to the process' address space. The memory residency of unlocked pages is unspecified.

       The appropriate privilege is required to lock process memory with mlockall().

RETURN VALUE

       Upon  successful completion, the mlockall() function shall return a value of zero. Otherwise, no additional memory shall be locked, and the
       function shall return a value of -1 and set errno to indicate the error. The effect of failure of mlockall() on previously  existing  locks
       in the address space is unspecified.

       If  it  is  supported  by  the implementation, the munlockall() function shall always return a value of zero. Otherwise, the function shall
       return a value of -1 and set errno to indicate the error.

ERRORS

       The mlockall() function shall fail if:

       EAGAIN Some or all of the memory identified by the operation could not be locked when the call was made.

       EINVAL The flags argument is zero, or includes unimplemented flags.

       The mlockall() function may fail if:

       ENOMEM Locking all of the pages currently mapped into the address space of the process would exceed an implementation-defined limit on  the
	      amount of memory that the process may lock.

       EPERM  The calling process does not have the appropriate privilege to perform the requested operation.

       The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES

       None.

APPLICATION USAGE

       None.

RATIONALE

       None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

       None.

SEE ALSO

       exec(), exit(), fork(), mlock(), munmap(), the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, <sys/mman.h>

COPYRIGHT

       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition, Standard for Information Technol-
       ogy -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the Institute of
       Electrical  and	Electronics  Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE
       and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can  be  obtained
       online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

IEEE
/The Open Group						       2003							      MLOCKALL(3P)