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34 .TH MINCORE 2 2021-03-22 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
36 mincore \- determine whether pages are resident in memory
39 .B #include <sys/mman.h>
41 .BI "int mincore(void *" addr ", size_t " length ", unsigned char *" vec );
45 Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
46 .BR feature_test_macros (7)):
53 Glibc 2.19 and earlier:
54 _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
58 returns a vector that indicates whether pages
59 of the calling process's virtual memory are resident in core (RAM),
60 and so will not cause a disk access (page fault) if referenced.
61 The kernel returns residency information about the pages
62 starting at the address
70 argument must be a multiple of the system page size.
73 argument need not be a multiple of the page size,
74 but since residency information is returned for whole pages,
76 is effectively rounded up to the next multiple of the page size.
77 One may obtain the page size
80 .IR sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE) .
84 argument must point to an array containing at least
85 .I "(length+PAGE_SIZE\-1) / PAGE_SIZE"
88 the least significant bit of each byte will be set if
89 the corresponding page is currently resident in memory,
90 and be clear otherwise.
91 (The settings of the other bits in each byte are undefined;
92 these bits are reserved for possible later use.)
93 Of course the information returned in
95 is only a snapshot: pages that are not
96 locked in memory can come and go at any moment, and the contents of
98 may already be stale by the time this call returns.
103 On error, \-1 is returned, and
105 is set to indicate the error.
108 kernel is temporarily out of resources.
112 points to an invalid address.
116 is not a multiple of the page size.
121 .RI ( TASK_SIZE " \- " addr ).
122 (This could occur if a negative value is specified for
124 since that value will be interpreted as a large
126 In Linux 2.6.11 and earlier, the error
128 was returned for this condition.
136 contained unmapped memory.
138 Available since Linux 2.3.99pre1 and glibc 2.2.
141 is not specified in POSIX.1,
142 and it is not available on all UNIX implementations.
143 .\" It is on at least NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris 8,
144 .\" AIX 5.1, SunOS 4.1
148 .\" function first appeared in 4.4BSD.
150 Before kernel 2.6.21,
152 did not return correct information for
154 mappings, or for nonlinear mappings (established using
155 .BR remap_file_pages (2)).
156 .\" Linux (up to now, 2.6.5),
158 .\" does not return correct information for MAP_PRIVATE mappings:
159 .\" for a MAP_PRIVATE file mapping,
161 .\" returns the residency of the file pages, rather than any
162 .\" modified process-private pages that have been copied on write;
163 .\" for a MAP_PRIVATE mapping of
166 .\" always reports pages as nonresident;
167 .\" and for a MAP_PRIVATE, MAP_ANONYMOUS mapping,
169 .\" always fails with the error
176 .BR posix_fadvise (2),
177 .BR posix_madvise (3)