Unmap previously mapped addresses, exercising more control than possible with munmap()
Synopsis:
#include <sys/mman.h>
int munmap_flags( void * addr,
size_t len,
unsigned flags );
Arguments:
- addr
- The beginning of the range of addresses that you want to unmap.
- len
- The length of the range of addresses, in bytes.
- flags
- 0, or a combination of the following bits:
- UNMAP_INT_REQUIRED
- UNMAP_INT_OPTIONAL
- UNMAP_CLEAN
- UNMAP_NOCLEAN
For more information, see below.
Library:
libc
Use the -l c option to
qcc
to link against this library.
This library is usually included automatically.
Description:
The munmap_flags() function removes any mappings for pages in
the address
range starting at addr and continuing for len bytes,
rounded up to the next multiple of the page size.
Subsequent references to these pages cause a SIGSEGV signal to be set on the process.
If there are no mappings in the specified address range, then
munmap_flags() has no effect.
Note:
This function was added in the QNX Neutrino Core OS 6.3.2.
If you specify 0 for the flags, munmap_flags()
is the same as
munmap().
The flags change the way munmap_flags() behaves, as follows:
- UNMAP_INT_REQUIRED
- POSIX initialization of the page to all zeros is required the next time
the underlying physical memory is allocated.
- UNMAP_INT_OPTIONAL
- Initialization of the underlying physical memory to zeros on its next
allocation is optional.
If you specify this flag, and you specify MAP_NOINIT
when you next call
mmap()
for this physical memory, the POSIX requirement that the memory be zeroed is
relaxed.
- UNMAP_CLEAN
-
Clean the memory region when the unmapping is done, if possible
(it isn't cleaned if there are still other references to it, for
example if it's a shared memory region and there are still other
processes referencing it).
- UNMAP_NOCLEAN
-
Don't clean the memory on unmapping, even if clean-on-unmapping is
the default behavior.
Instead, the cleaning is done the next time the memory pages are
allocated to another process.
This is the default behavior if you haven't specified the -mc
option for
procnto.
The memory-manager configuration (-m) option for
procnto
affects the default behavior of munmap_flags() (unless overridden
by the flags argument), as detailed below:
- -mi
- Act as if UNMAP_INIT_REQUIRED were specified (the default).
- -m~i
- Act as if UNMAP_INIT_OPTIONAL were specified.
- -mc
- Act as if UNMAP_CLEAN were specified.
- -m~c
- Act as if UNMAP_NOCLEAN were specified.
Returns:
- 0
- Success.
- -1
- Failure; errno is set.
Errors:
- EINVAL
- The addresses in the specified range are outside the range allowed for the address space of a process.
- ENOSYS
- The function munmap_flags() isn't supported by this implementation.
Classification:
QNX Neutrino
| Safety: |
|
| Cancellation point |
No |
| Interrupt handler |
No |
| Signal handler |
Yes |
| Thread |
Yes |