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Memory management declarations.
Structs
Enums
Usage information for a range of memory to allow for performance optimizations by the kernel.
Functions
give advice about use of memory
Locks all memory pages that contain part of the address range with
length
bytes starting at addr
.Locks all memory pages mapped into this process’ address space.
mmap⚠
allocate memory, or map files or devices into memory
Set protection of memory mapping.
Expands (or shrinks) an existing memory mapping, potentially moving it at
the same time.
synchronize a mapped region
Unlocks all memory pages that contain part of the address range with
length
bytes starting at addr
.Unlocks all memory pages mapped into this process’ address space.
remove a mapping
Creates and opens a new, or opens an existing, POSIX shared memory object.
Performs the converse of
shm_open
, removing an object previously created.