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mlockall(2)							System Calls Manual						       mlockall(2)

NAME
mlockall() - lock a process virtual address space in memory SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
The system call allows the calling process to lock its entire virtual address space into memory, making it immune to all routine swapping. flags may be one or both of the following: Lock the current process virtual address space. All addressable pages of the address space are locked. Lock any future additions to the process virtual address space. Note that does not imply or can be used to unlock all or a portion of the address space locked with A single call to removes all locks from the process virtual address space. An call results in only the specified pages being unlocked. Regardless of how many times a process locks a page, a single or will unlock it. When memory is shared by multiple processes and mlocks are applied to the same physical page by multiple processes, a page remains locked until the last lock is removed from that page. Locks and applied with are not inherited by a child process. The user must have the privilege. Although and the family of functions may be used together in an application, each may affect the other in unexpected ways. This practice is not recommended. Security Restrictions Some or all of the actions associated with this system call require the privilege. Processes owned by the superuser have this privilege. Processes owned by other users may have this privilege, depending on system configuration. See privileges(5) for more information about privileged access on systems that support fine-grained privileges. RETURN VALUE
returns the following values: Successful completion. Failure. The requested operation is not performed. is set to indicate the error. ERRORS
If fails, is set to one of the following values: The flags field did not contain either and/or There is not enough lockable memory in the system to satisfy the locking request. The user does not have the privilege. EXAMPLES
The following call to locks the entire process virtual address space in memory and ensures that any future additions to the address space will also be locked in memory: SEE ALSO
setprivgrp(1M), getprivgrp(2), mlock(2), munlock(2), munlockall(2), plock(2), privileges(5). STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
mlockall(2)

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munlock(2)							System Calls Manual							munlock(2)

NAME
munlock() - unlock a segment of the process virtual address space SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
The system call allows the calling process to unlock a segment of the process virtual address space that may have been previously locked with or Upon successful completion of the pages within the specified segment are subject to routine paging and/or swapping. addr must be a valid address in the process virtual address space. addr+len must also be a valid address in the process virtual address space. Pages are unlocked at page boundaries that encompass the range from addr to addr+len. If any address within the range is not a valid part of the process virtual address space, an error is returned and no unlocks are performed. However, no error is reported for valid pages within the range that are not already locked, since their state at the completion of the call is as desired. Regardless of how many times a process locks a page, a single or will unlock it. An of a page within a range specified in an call results in only the range specified in the being unlocked. When memory is shared by multiple processes and mlocks are applied to the same physical page by multiple processes, a page remains locked until the last lock is removed from that page. The effective user ID of the calling process must be that of a user with the privilege. Although and the family of functions may be used together in an application, each may affect the other in unexpected ways. This practice is not recommended. Security Restrictions Some or all of the actions associated with this system call require the privilege. Processes owned by the superuser have this privilege. Processes owned by other users may have this privilege, depending on system configuration. See privileges(5) for more information about privileged access on systems that support fine-grained privileges. RETURN VALUE
returns the following values: Successful completion. Failure. The requested operation is not performed. is set to indicate the error. ERRORS
If fails, is set to one of the following values: One or more addresses in the specified range is not valid within the process address space. The parameter was zero. The effective user ID of the calling process is not that of a user with the privilege. EXAMPLES
The following call to unlocks the first 10 pages of the calling process address space: SEE ALSO
setprivgrp(1M), getprivgrp(2), mlock(2), mlockall(2), munlockall(2), plock(2), privileges(5). STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
munlock(2)
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