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Memory management declarations.
Structs§
- MRemap
Flags - Options for
mremap. - MapFlags
- Additional parameters for
mmap. - Mlock
AllFlags - Flags for
mlockall. - MsFlags
- Configuration flags for
msync. - Prot
Flags - Desired memory protection of a memory mapping.
Enums§
- Mmap
Advise - Usage information for a range of memory to allow for performance optimizations by the kernel.
Functions§
- madvise⚠
- give advice about use of memory
- mlock⚠
- Locks all memory pages that contain part of the address range with
lengthbytes starting ataddr. - mlockall
- Locks all memory pages mapped into this process’ address space.
- mmap⚠
- allocate memory, or map files or devices into memory
- mprotect⚠
- Set protection of memory mapping.
- mremap⚠
- Expands (or shrinks) an existing memory mapping, potentially moving it at the same time.
- msync⚠
- synchronize a mapped region
- munlock⚠
- Unlocks all memory pages that contain part of the address range with
lengthbytes starting ataddr. - munlockall
- Unlocks all memory pages mapped into this process’ address space.
- munmap⚠
- remove a mapping
- shm_
open - Creates and opens a new, or opens an existing, POSIX shared memory object.
- shm_
unlink - Performs the converse of
shm_open, removing an object previously created.