.\" Copyright (c) 2013 Gleb Smirnoff .\" All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions .\" are met: .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. .\" .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND .\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE .\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" $FreeBSD: releng/12.2/lib/libc/sys/aio_mlock.2 304476 2016-08-19 17:37:32Z jhb $ .\" .Dd August 19, 2016 .Dt AIO_MLOCK 2 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm aio_mlock .Nd asynchronous .Xr mlock 2 operation .Sh LIBRARY .Lb libc .Sh SYNOPSIS .In aio.h .Ft int .Fn aio_mlock "struct aiocb *iocb" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn aio_mlock system call allows the calling process to lock into memory the physical pages associated with the virtual address range starting at .Fa iocb->aio_buf for .Fa iocb->aio_nbytes bytes. The call returns immediately after the locking request has been enqueued; the operation may or may not have completed at the time the call returns. .Pp The .Fa iocb pointer may be subsequently used as an argument to .Fn aio_return and .Fn aio_error in order to determine return or error status for the enqueued operation while it is in progress. .Pp If the request could not be enqueued (generally due to .Xr aio 4 limits), then the call returns without having enqueued the request. .Pp The .Fa iocb->aio_sigevent structure can be used to request notification of the operation's completion as described in .Xr aio 4 . .Sh RESTRICTIONS The Asynchronous I/O Control Block structure pointed to by .Fa iocb and the buffer that the .Fa iocb->aio_buf member of that structure references must remain valid until the operation has completed. .Pp The asynchronous I/O control buffer .Fa iocb should be zeroed before the .Fn aio_mlock call to avoid passing bogus context information to the kernel. .Pp Modifications of the Asynchronous I/O Control Block structure or the memory mapping described by the virtual address range are not allowed while the request is queued. .Sh RETURN VALUES .Rv -std aio_mlock .Sh ERRORS The .Fn aio_mlock system call will fail if: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EAGAIN The request was not queued because of system resource limitations. .It Bq Er EINVAL The asynchronous notification method in .Fa iocb->aio_sigevent.sigev_notify is invalid or not supported. .El .Pp If the request is successfully enqueued, but subsequently cancelled or an error occurs, the value returned by the .Fn aio_return system call is per the .Xr mlock 2 system call, and the value returned by the .Fn aio_error system call is one of the error returns from the .Xr mlock 2 system call, or .Er ECANCELED if the request was explicitly cancelled via a call to .Fn aio_cancel . .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr aio_cancel 2 , .Xr aio_error 2 , .Xr aio_return 2 , .Xr mlock 2 , .Xr sigevent 3 , .Xr aio 4 .Sh PORTABILITY The .Fn aio_mlock system call is a .Fx extension, and should not be used in portable code. .Sh HISTORY The .Fn aio_mlock system call first appeared in .Fx 10.0 . .Sh AUTHORS The system call was introduced by .An Gleb Smirnoff Aq Mt glebius@FreeBSD.org .