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MINCORE(2) Linux Programmer's Manual MINCORE(2)
NAME
mincore - determine whether pages are resident in memory
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
int mincore(void *addr, size_t length, unsigned char *vec);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
mincore(): _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
DESCRIPTION
mincore() returns a vector that indicates whether pages of the calling process's
virtual memory are resident in core (RAM), and so will not cause a disk access
(page fault) if referenced. The kernel returns residency information about the
pages starting at the address addr, and continuing for length bytes.
The addr argument must be a multiple of the system page size. The length argument
need not be a multiple of the page size, but since residency information is
returned for whole pages, length is effectively rounded up to the next multiple of
the page size. One may obtain the page size (PAGE_SIZE) using sysconf(_SC_PAGE-
SIZE).
The vec argument must point to an array containing at least (length+PAGE_SIZE-1) /
PAGE_SIZE bytes. On return, the least significant bit of each byte will be set if
the corresponding page is currently resident in memory, and be clear otherwise.
(The settings of the other bits in each byte are undefined; these bits are reserved
for possible later use.) Of course the information returned in vec is only a snap-
shot: pages that are not locked in memory can come and go at any moment, and the
contents of vec may already be stale by the time this call returns.
RETURN VALUE
On success, mincore() returns zero. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set
appropriately.
ERRORS
EAGAIN kernel is temporarily out of resources.
EFAULT vec points to an invalid address.
EINVAL addr is not a multiple of the page size.
ENOMEM length is greater than (TASK_SIZE - addr). (This could occur if a negative
value is specified for length, since that value will be interpreted as a
large unsigned integer.) In Linux 2.6.11 and earlier, the error EINVAL was
returned for this condition.
ENOMEM addr to addr + length contained unmapped memory.
VERSIONS
Available since Linux 2.3.99pre1 and glibc 2.2.
CONFORMING TO
mincore() is not specified in POSIX.1-2001, and it is not available on all Unix
implementations.
BUGS
Before kernel 2.6.21, mincore() did not return correct information for MAP_PRIVATE
mappings, or for non-linear mappings (established using remap_file_pages(2)).
SEE ALSO
mlock(2), mmap(2)
COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.22 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of
the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.ker-
nel.org/doc/man-pages/.
Linux 2008-04-22 MINCORE(2)
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