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25.Dd August 19, 2016
26.Dt AIO_MLOCK 2
27.Os
28.Sh NAME
29.Nm aio_mlock
30.Nd asynchronous
31.Xr mlock 2
32operation
33.Sh LIBRARY
34.Lb libc
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.In aio.h
37.Ft int
38.Fn aio_mlock "struct aiocb *iocb"
39.Sh DESCRIPTION
40The
41.Fn aio_mlock
42system call allows the calling process to lock into memory the
43physical pages associated with the virtual address range starting at
44.Fa iocb->aio_buf
45for
46.Fa iocb->aio_nbytes
47bytes.
48The call returns immediately after the locking request has
49been enqueued; the operation may or may not have completed at the time
50the call returns.
51.Pp
52The
53.Fa iocb
54pointer may be subsequently used as an argument to
55.Fn aio_return
56and
57.Fn aio_error
58in order to determine return or error status for the enqueued operation
59while it is in progress.
60.Pp
61If the request could not be enqueued (generally due to
62.Xr aio 4
63limits),
64then the call returns without having enqueued the request.
65.Pp
66The
67.Fa iocb->aio_sigevent
68structure can be used to request notification of the operation's
69completion as described in
70.Xr aio 4 .
71.Sh RESTRICTIONS
72The Asynchronous I/O Control Block structure pointed to by
73.Fa iocb
74and the buffer that the
75.Fa iocb->aio_buf
76member of that structure references must remain valid until the
77operation has completed.
78.Pp
79The asynchronous I/O control buffer
80.Fa iocb
81should be zeroed before the
82.Fn aio_mlock
83call to avoid passing bogus context information to the kernel.
84.Pp
85Modifications of the Asynchronous I/O Control Block structure or the
86memory mapping described by the virtual address range are not allowed
87while the request is queued.
88.Sh RETURN VALUES
89.Rv -std aio_mlock
90.Sh ERRORS
91The
92.Fn aio_mlock
93system call will fail if:
94.Bl -tag -width Er
95.It Bq Er EAGAIN
96The request was not queued because of system resource limitations.
97.It Bq Er EINVAL
98The asynchronous notification method in
99.Fa iocb->aio_sigevent.sigev_notify
100is invalid or not supported.
101.El
102.Pp
103If the request is successfully enqueued, but subsequently cancelled
104or an error occurs, the value returned by the
105.Fn aio_return
106system call is per the
107.Xr mlock 2
108system call, and the value returned by the
109.Fn aio_error
110system call is one of the error returns from the
111.Xr mlock 2
112system call, or
113.Er ECANCELED
114if the request was explicitly cancelled via a call to
115.Fn aio_cancel .
116.Sh SEE ALSO
117.Xr aio_cancel 2 ,
118.Xr aio_error 2 ,
119.Xr aio_return 2 ,
120.Xr mlock 2 ,
121.Xr sigevent 3 ,
122.Xr aio 4
123.Sh PORTABILITY
124The
125.Fn aio_mlock
126system call is a
127.Fx
128extension, and should not be used in portable code.
129.Sh HISTORY
130The
131.Fn aio_mlock
132system call first appeared in
133.Fx 10.0 .
134.Sh AUTHORS
135The system call was introduced by
136.An Gleb Smirnoff Aq Mt glebius@FreeBSD.org .
137