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MINCORE (2) | System calls | Unix Manual Pages | :man▋
NAME
mincore - determine residency of memory pages
CONTENTS
Library
Synopsis
Description
Return Values
Errors
See Also
History
LIBRARY
.Lb libc
SYNOPSIS
.In sys/mman.h int mincore "const void *addr" "size_t len" "char *vec"
DESCRIPTION
The mincore system call determines whether each of the pages in the region beginning at addr and continuing for len bytes is resident. The status is returned in the vec array, one character per page. Each character is either 0 if the page is not resident, or a combination of the following flags (defined in
.In sys/mman.h ) : | MINCORE_INCORE | Page is in core (resident). | | MINCORE_REFERENCED | Page has been referenced by us. | | MINCORE_MODIFIED | Page has been modified by us. | | MINCORE_REFERENCED_OTHER | Page has been referenced. | | MINCORE_MODIFIED_OTHER | Page has been modified. | |
The information returned by mincore may be out of date by the time the system call returns. The only way to ensure that a page is resident is to lock it into memory with the mlock(2) system call.
RETURN VALUES
.Rv -std mincore
ERRORS
The mincore system call will fail if: | [EINVAL] | | | The virtual address range specified by the addr and len arguments is not valid. | | [EFAULT] | | | The vec argument points to an illegal address. | |
SEE ALSO
madvise(2), mlock(2), mprotect(2), msync(2), munmap(2), getpagesize(3)
HISTORY
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