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@@ -467,7 +467,13 @@ mmap(MAP_LOCKED) SYSTEM CALL HANDLING
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In addition the mlock()/mlockall() system calls, an application can request
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that a region of memory be mlocked supplying the MAP_LOCKED flag to the mmap()
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-call. Furthermore, any mmap() call or brk() call that expands the heap by a
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+call. There is one important and subtle difference here, though. mmap() + mlock()
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+will fail if the range cannot be faulted in (e.g. because mm_populate fails)
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+and returns with ENOMEM while mmap(MAP_LOCKED) will not fail. The mmaped
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+area will still have properties of the locked area - aka. pages will not get
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+swapped out - but major page faults to fault memory in might still happen.
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+Furthermore, any mmap() call or brk() call that expands the heap by a
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task that has previously called mlockall() with the MCL_FUTURE flag will result
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in the newly mapped memory being mlocked. Before the unevictable/mlock
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changes, the kernel simply called make_pages_present() to allocate pages and
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