minix/lib/libc/sys/mlockall.2
Ben Gras 2fe8fb192f Full switch to clang/ELF. Drop ack. Simplify.
There is important information about booting non-ack images in
docs/UPDATING. ack/aout-format images can't be built any more, and
booting clang/ELF-format ones is a little different. Updating to the
new boot monitor is recommended.

Changes in this commit:

	. drop boot monitor -> allowing dropping ack support
	. facility to copy ELF boot files to /boot so that old boot monitor
	  can still boot fairly easily, see UPDATING
	. no more ack-format libraries -> single-case libraries
	. some cleanup of OBJECT_FMT, COMPILER_TYPE, etc cases
	. drop several ack toolchain commands, but not all support
	  commands (e.g. aal is gone but acksize is not yet).
	. a few libc files moved to netbsd libc dir
	. new /bin/date as minix date used code in libc/
	. test compile fix
	. harmonize includes
	. /usr/lib is no longer special: without ack, /usr/lib plays no
	  kind of special bootstrapping role any more and bootstrapping
	  is done exclusively through packages, so releases depend even
	  less on the state of the machine making them now.
	. rename nbsd_lib* to lib*
	. reduce mtree
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.\" $NetBSD: mlockall.2,v 1.13 2008/04/30 13:10:51 martin Exp $
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.Dd June 12, 1999
.Dt MLOCKALL 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm mlockall ,
.Nm munlockall
.Nd lock (unlock) the address space of a process
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libc
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/mman.h
.Ft int
.Fn mlockall "int flags"
.Ft int
.Fn munlockall "void"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm mlockall
system call locks into memory the physical pages associated with the
address space of a process until the address space is unlocked, the
process exits, or execs another program image.
.Pp
The following flags affect the behavior of
.Nm mlockall :
.Bl -tag -width MCL_CURRENT
.It Dv MCL_CURRENT
Lock all pages currently mapped into the process's address space.
.It Dv 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 mappings
cause resource limits to be exceeded.
.El
.Pp
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
.Dq wired pages
limit and the per-process
.Li RLIMIT_MEMLOCK
resource limit.
.Pp
The
.Nm munlockall
call unlocks any locked memory regions in the process address space.
Any regions mapped after an
.Nm munlockall
call will not be locked.
.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 mlockall
will fail if:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EINVAL
The
.Ar flags
argument is zero, or includes unimplemented flags.
.It Bq Er ENOMEM
Locking the indicated range would exceed either the system or per-process
limit for locked memory.
.It Bq Er EAGAIN
Some or all of the memory mapped into the process's address space
could not be locked when the call was made.
.It Bq Er EPERM
The calling process does not have the appropriate privilege to perform
the requested operation.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mincore 2 ,
.Xr mlock 2 ,
.Xr mmap 2 ,
.Xr munmap 2 ,
.Xr setrlimit 2
.Sh STANDARDS
The
.Fn mlockall
and
.Fn munlockall
functions conform to
.St -p1003.1b-93 .
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Fn mlockall
and
.Fn munlockall
functions first appeared in
.Nx 1.5 .
.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.