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MMAP(2)                                                                 Linux Programmer's Manual                                                                MMAP(2)

NAME
       mmap, munmap - map or unmap files or devices into memory

SYNOPSIS
       #include <sys/mman.h>

       void *mmap(void *addr, size_t length, int prot, int flags,
                  int fd, off_t offset);
       int munmap(void *addr, size_t length);

       See NOTES for information on feature test macro requirements.

DESCRIPTION
       mmap() creates a new mapping in the virtual address space of the calling process.  The starting address for the new mapping is specified in addr.  The length ar‐
       gument specifies the length of the mapping (which must be greater than 0).

       If addr is NULL, then the kernel chooses the (page-aligned) address at which to create the mapping; this is the most portable method of creating a  new  mapping.
       If addr is not NULL, then the kernel takes it as a hint about where to place the mapping; on Linux, the kernel will pick a nearby page boundary (but always above
       or equal to the value specified by /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr) and attempt to create the mapping there.  If another mapping  already  exists  there,  the  kernel
       picks a new address that may or may not depend on the hint.  The address of the new mapping is returned as the result of the call.

       The contents of a file mapping (as opposed to an anonymous mapping; see MAP_ANONYMOUS below), are initialized using length bytes starting at offset offset in the
       file (or other object) referred to by the file descriptor fd.  offset must be a multiple of the page size as returned by sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE).

       After the mmap() call has returned, the file descriptor, fd, can be closed immediately without invalidating the mapping.

       The prot argument describes the desired memory protection of the mapping (and must not conflict with the open mode of the file).  It is either PROT_NONE  or  the
       bitwise OR of one or more of the following flags:

       PROT_EXEC  Pages may be executed.

       PROT_READ  Pages may be read.

       PROT_WRITE Pages may be written.

       PROT_NONE  Pages may not be accessed.

   The flags argument
       The  flags  argument determines whether updates to the mapping are visible to other processes mapping the same region, and whether updates are carried through to
       the underlying file.  This behavior is determined by including exactly one of the following values in flags:

       MAP_SHARED
              Share this mapping.  Updates to the mapping are visible to other processes mapping the same region, and (in the case of file-backed mappings) are  carried
              through to the underlying file.  (To precisely control when updates are carried through to the underlying file requires the use of msync(2).)

       MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE (since Linux 4.15)
              This  flag  provides  the same behavior as MAP_SHARED except that MAP_SHARED mappings ignore unknown flags in flags.  By contrast, when creating a mapping
              using MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE, the kernel verifies all passed flags are known and fails the mapping with the error EOPNOTSUPP for unknown flags.  This mapping
              type is also required to be able to use some mapping flags (e.g., MAP_SYNC).

       MAP_PRIVATE
              Create  a  private copy-on-write mapping.  Updates to the mapping are not visible to other processes mapping the same file, and are not carried through to
              the underlying file.  It is unspecified whether changes made to the file after the mmap() call are visible in the mapped region.

       Both MAP_SHARED and MAP_PRIVATE are described in POSIX.1-2001 and POSIX.1-2008.  MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE is a Linux extension.

       In addition, zero or more of the following values can be ORed in flags:

       MAP_32BIT (since Linux 2.4.20, 2.6)
              Put the mapping into the first 2 Gigabytes of the process address space.  This flag is supported only on x86-64, for 64-bit programs.  It was added to al‐
              low  thread  stacks  to  be  allocated somewhere in the first 2 GB of memory, so as to improve context-switch performance on some early 64-bit processors.
              Modern x86-64 processors no longer have this performance problem, so use of this flag is not required on those systems.  The  MAP_32BIT  flag  is  ignored
              when MAP_FIXED is set.

       MAP_ANON
              Synonym for MAP_ANONYMOUS; provided for compatibility with other implementations.

       MAP_ANONYMOUS
              The  mapping  is not backed by any file; its contents are initialized to zero.  The fd argument is ignored; however, some implementations require fd to be
              -1 if MAP_ANONYMOUS (or MAP_ANON) is specified, and portable applications should ensure this.  The offset argument should be zero.  The use of  MAP_ANONY‐
              MOUS in conjunction with MAP_SHARED is supported on Linux only since kernel 2.4.

       MAP_DENYWRITE
              This flag is ignored.  (Long agoβ€”Linux 2.0 and earlierβ€”it signaled that attempts to write to the underlying file should fail with ETXTBSY.  But this was a
              source of denial-of-service attacks.)

       MAP_EXECUTABLE
              This flag is ignored.

       MAP_FILE
              Compatibility flag.  Ignored.

       MAP_FIXED
              Don't interpret addr as a hint: place the mapping at exactly that address.  addr must be suitably aligned: for most architectures a multiple of  the  page
              size  is  sufficient; however, some architectures may impose additional restrictions.  If the memory region specified by addr and length overlaps pages of
              any existing mapping(s), then the overlapped part of the existing mapping(s) will be discarded.  If the specified address  cannot  be  used,  mmap()  will
              fail.

              Software  that aspires to be portable should use the MAP_FIXED flag with care, keeping in mind that the exact layout of a process's memory mappings is al‐
              lowed to change significantly between kernel versions, C library versions, and operating system releases.  Carefully read the discussion of this  flag  in
              NOTES!

       MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE (since Linux 4.17)
              This  flag  provides  behavior that is similar to MAP_FIXED with respect to the addr enforcement, but differs in that MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE never clobbers a
              preexisting mapped range.  If the requested range would collide with an existing mapping, then this call fails with  the  error  EEXIST.   This  flag  can
              therefore  be used as a way to atomically (with respect to other threads) attempt to map an address range: one thread will succeed; all others will report
              failure.

              Note that older kernels which do not recognize the MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE flag will typically (upon detecting a collision with a  preexisting  mapping)  fall
              back  to  a  "non-MAP_FIXED"  type  of behavior: they will return an address that is different from the requested address.  Therefore, backward-compatible
              software should check the returned address against the requested address.

       MAP_GROWSDOWN
              This flag is used for stacks.  It indicates to the kernel virtual memory system that the mapping should extend downward in memory.  The return address  is
              one  page  lower  than the memory area that is actually created in the process's virtual address space.  Touching an address in the "guard" page below the
              mapping will cause the mapping to grow by a page.  This growth can be repeated until the mapping grows to within a page of the high end of the next  lower
              mapping, at which point touching the "guard" page will result in a SIGSEGV signal.

       MAP_HUGETLB (since Linux 2.6.32)
              Allocate  the  mapping using "huge" pages.  See the Linux kernel source file Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst for further information, as well
              as NOTES, below.

       MAP_HUGE_2MB, MAP_HUGE_1GB (since Linux 3.8)
              Used in conjunction with MAP_HUGETLB to select alternative hugetlb page sizes (respectively, 2 MB and 1 GB) on systems that support multiple hugetlb  page
              sizes.

              More  generally,  the  desired  huge  page  size can be configured by encoding the base-2 logarithm of the desired page size in the six bits at the offset
              MAP_HUGE_SHIFT.  (A value of zero in this bit field provides the default huge page size; the default huge page size can be discovered via the Hugepagesize
              field exposed by /proc/meminfo.)  Thus, the above two constants are defined as:

                  #define MAP_HUGE_2MB    (21 << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT)
                  #define MAP_HUGE_1GB    (30 << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT)

              The range of huge page sizes that are supported by the system can be discovered by listing the subdirectories in /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages.

       MAP_LOCKED (since Linux 2.5.37)
              Mark  the mapped region to be locked in the same way as mlock(2).  This implementation will try to populate (prefault) the whole range but the mmap() call
              doesn't fail with ENOMEM if this fails.  Therefore major faults might happen later on.  So the semantic is not as strong  as  mlock(2).   One  should  use
              mmap() plus mlock(2) when major faults are not acceptable after the initialization of the mapping.  The MAP_LOCKED flag is ignored in older kernels.

       MAP_NONBLOCK (since Linux 2.5.46)
              This  flag  is  meaningful  only  in  conjunction with MAP_POPULATE.  Don't perform read-ahead: create page tables entries only for pages that are already
              present in RAM.  Since Linux 2.6.23, this flag causes MAP_POPULATE to do nothing.  One day, the combination of MAP_POPULATE and MAP_NONBLOCK  may  be  re‐
              implemented.

       MAP_NORESERVE
              Do  not  reserve  swap  space  for this mapping.  When swap space is reserved, one has the guarantee that it is possible to modify the mapping.  When swap
              space is not reserved one might get SIGSEGV upon a write if no physical memory is available.  See also the discussion of  the  file  /proc/sys/vm/overcom‐
              mit_memory in proc(5).  In kernels before 2.6, this flag had effect only for private writable mappings.

       MAP_POPULATE (since Linux 2.5.46)
              Populate  (prefault) page tables for a mapping.  For a file mapping, this causes read-ahead on the file.  This will help to reduce blocking on page faults
              later.  The mmap() call doesn't fail if the mapping cannot be populated (for example, due to limitations on the number of mapped  huge  pages  when  using
              MAP_HUGETLB).  MAP_POPULATE is supported for private mappings only since Linux 2.6.23.

       MAP_STACK (since Linux 2.6.27)
              Allocate the mapping at an address suitable for a process or thread stack.

              This  flag  is currently a no-op on Linux.  However, by employing this flag, applications can ensure that they transparently obtain support if the flag is
              implemented in the future.  Thus, it is used in the glibc threading implementation to allow for the fact that some architectures may (later) require  spe‐
              cial  treatment  for  stack  allocations.  A further reason to employ this flag is portability: MAP_STACK exists (and has an effect) on some other systems
              (e.g., some of the BSDs).

       MAP_SYNC (since Linux 4.15)
              This flag is available only with the MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE mapping type; mappings of type MAP_SHARED will silently ignore this flag.  This flag is supported
              only for files supporting DAX (direct mapping of persistent memory).  For other files, creating a mapping with this flag results in an EOPNOTSUPP error.

              Shared  file mappings with this flag provide the guarantee that while some memory is mapped writable in the address space of the process, it will be visi‐
              ble in the same file at the same offset even after the system crashes or is rebooted.  In conjunction with the use of appropriate CPU  instructions,  this
              provides users of such mappings with a more efficient way of making data modifications persistent.

       MAP_UNINITIALIZED (since Linux 2.6.33)
              Don't  clear  anonymous  pages.  This flag is intended to improve performance on embedded devices.  This flag is honored only if the kernel was configured
              with the CONFIG_MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED option.  Because of the security implications, that option is normally enabled only on  embedded  devices  (i.e.,
              devices where one has complete control of the contents of user memory).

       Of the above flags, only MAP_FIXED is specified in POSIX.1-2001 and POSIX.1-2008.  However, most systems also support MAP_ANONYMOUS (or its synonym MAP_ANON).

   munmap()
       The  munmap()  system  call deletes the mappings for the specified address range, and causes further references to addresses within the range to generate invalid
       memory references.  The region is also automatically unmapped when the process is terminated.  On the other hand, closing the file descriptor does not unmap  the
       region.

       The  address  addr must be a multiple of the page size (but length need not be).  All pages containing a part of the indicated range are unmapped, and subsequent
       references to these pages will generate SIGSEGV.  It is not an error if the indicated range does not contain any mapped pages.

RETURN VALUE
       On success, mmap() returns a pointer to the mapped area.  On error, the value MAP_FAILED (that is, (void *) -1) is returned, and errno is set to indicate the er‐
       ror.

       On success, munmap() returns 0.  On failure, it returns -1, and errno is set to indicate the error (probably to EINVAL).

ERRORS
       EACCES A  file  descriptor  refers  to  a  non-regular  file.   Or a file mapping was requested, but fd is not open for reading.  Or MAP_SHARED was requested and
              PROT_WRITE is set, but fd is not open in read/write (O_RDWR) mode.  Or PROT_WRITE is set, but the file is append-only.

       EAGAIN The file has been locked, or too much memory has been locked (see setrlimit(2)).

       EBADF  fd is not a valid file descriptor (and MAP_ANONYMOUS was not set).

       EEXIST MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE was specified in flags, and the range covered by addr and length clashes with an existing mapping.

       EINVAL We don't like addr, length, or offset (e.g., they are too large, or not aligned on a page boundary).

       EINVAL (since Linux 2.6.12) length was 0.

       EINVAL flags contained none of MAP_PRIVATE, MAP_SHARED, or MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE.

       ENFILE The system-wide limit on the total number of open files has been reached.

       ENODEV The underlying filesystem of the specified file does not support memory mapping.

       ENOMEM No memory is available.

       ENOMEM The process's maximum number of mappings would have been exceeded.  This error can also occur for munmap(), when unmapping a region in the  middle  of  an
              existing mapping, since this results in two smaller mappings on either side of the region being unmapped.

       ENOMEM (since Linux 4.7) The process's RLIMIT_DATA limit, described in getrlimit(2), would have been exceeded.

       EOVERFLOW
              On  32-bit  architecture  together with the large file extension (i.e., using 64-bit off_t): the number of pages used for length plus number of pages used
              for offset would overflow unsigned long (32 bits).

       EPERM  The prot argument asks for PROT_EXEC but the mapped area belongs to a file on a filesystem that was mounted no-exec.

       EPERM  The operation was prevented by a file seal; see fcntl(2).

       EPERM  The MAP_HUGETLB flag was specified, but the caller was  not  privileged  (did  not  have  the  CAP_IPC_LOCK  capability)  and  is  not  a  member  of  the
              sysctl_hugetlb_shm_group group; see the description of /proc/sys/vm/sysctl_hugetlb_shm_group in

       ETXTBSY
              MAP_DENYWRITE was set but the object specified by fd is open for writing.

       Use of a mapped region can result in these signals:

       SIGSEGV
              Attempted write into a region mapped as read-only.

       SIGBUS Attempted  access  to a page of the buffer that lies beyond the end of the mapped file.  For an explanation of the treatment of the bytes in the page that
              corresponds to the end of a mapped file that is not a multiple of the page size, see NOTES.

ATTRIBUTES
       For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

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CONFORMING TO
       POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, SVr4, 4.4BSD.

       On POSIX systems on which mmap(), msync(2), and munmap() are available, _POSIX_MAPPED_FILES is defined in <unistd.h> to  a  value  greater  than  0.   (See  also
       sysconf(3).)

NOTES
       Memory mapped by mmap() is preserved across fork(2), with the same attributes.

       A  file  is  mapped in multiples of the page size.  For a file that is not a multiple of the page size, the remaining bytes in the partial page at the end of the
       mapping are zeroed when mapped, and modifications to that region are not written out to the file.  The effect of changing the size of the underlying  file  of  a
       mapping on the pages that correspond to added or removed regions of the file is unspecified.

       On  some  hardware  architectures (e.g., i386), PROT_WRITE implies PROT_READ.  It is architecture dependent whether PROT_READ implies PROT_EXEC or not.  Portable
       programs should always set PROT_EXEC if they intend to execute code in the new mapping.

       The portable way to create a mapping is to specify addr as 0 (NULL), and omit MAP_FIXED from flags.  In this case, the system chooses the address  for  the  map‐
       ping;  the  address is chosen so as not to conflict with any existing mapping, and will not be 0.  If the MAP_FIXED flag is specified, and addr is 0 (NULL), then
       the mapped address will be 0 (NULL).

       Certain flags constants are defined only if suitable feature test macros are defined (possibly  by  default):  _DEFAULT_SOURCE  with  glibc  2.19  or  later;  or
       _BSD_SOURCE or _SVID_SOURCE in glibc 2.19 and earlier.  (Employing _GNU_SOURCE also suffices, and requiring that macro specifically would have been more logical,
       since these flags are all Linux-specific.)  The relevant flags are: MAP_32BIT, MAP_ANONYMOUS (and the synonym MAP_ANON), MAP_DENYWRITE, MAP_EXECUTABLE, MAP_FILE,
       MAP_GROWSDOWN, MAP_HUGETLB, MAP_LOCKED, MAP_NONBLOCK, MAP_NORESERVE, MAP_POPULATE, and MAP_STACK.

       An application can determine which pages of a mapping are currently resident in the buffer/page cache using mincore(2).

   Using MAP_FIXED safely
       The  only  safe  use  for  MAP_FIXED is where the address range specified by addr and length was previously reserved using another mapping; otherwise, the use of
       MAP_FIXED is hazardous because it forcibly removes preexisting mappings, making it easy for a multithreaded process to corrupt its own address space.

       For example, suppose that thread A looks through /proc/<pid>/maps in order to locate an unused address range that it can map using MAP_FIXED, while thread B  si‐
       multaneously  acquires  part or all of that same address range.  When thread A subsequently employs mmap(MAP_FIXED), it will effectively clobber the mapping that
       thread B created.  In this scenario, thread B need not create a mapping directly; simply making a library call that, internally, uses dlopen(3) to load some oth‐
       er  shared  library, will suffice.  The dlopen(3) call will map the library into the process's address space.  Furthermore, almost any library call may be imple‐
       mented in a way that adds memory mappings to the address space, either with this technique, or by simply allocating memory.  Examples include brk(2),  malloc(3),
       pthread_create(3), and the PAM libraries ⟨http://www.linux-pam.org⟩.

       Since Linux 4.17, a multithreaded program can use the MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE flag to avoid the hazard described above when attempting to create a mapping at a fixed
       address that has not been reserved by a preexisting mapping.

   Timestamps changes for file-backed mappings
       For file-backed mappings, the st_atime field for the mapped file may be updated at any time between the mmap() and the corresponding unmapping; the first  refer‐
       ence to a mapped page will update the field if it has not been already.

       The  st_ctime  and  st_mtime  field  for a file mapped with PROT_WRITE and MAP_SHARED will be updated after a write to the mapped region, and before a subsequent
       msync(2) with the MS_SYNC or MS_ASYNC flag, if one occurs.

   Huge page (Huge TLB) mappings
       For mappings that employ huge pages, the requirements for the arguments of mmap() and munmap() differ somewhat from the requirements for mappings  that  use  the
       native system page size.

       For  mmap(),  offset  must  be  a multiple of the underlying huge page size.  The system automatically aligns length to be a multiple of the underlying huge page
       size.

       For munmap(), addr, and length must both be a multiple of the underlying huge page size.

   C library/kernel differences
       This page describes the interface provided by the glibc mmap() wrapper function.  Originally, this function invoked a system call of the same name.  Since kernel
       2.4, that system call has been superseded by mmap2(2), and nowadays the glibc mmap() wrapper function invokes mmap2(2) with a suitably adjusted value for offset.

BUGS
       On  Linux,  there are no guarantees like those suggested above under MAP_NORESERVE.  By default, any process can be killed at any moment when the system runs out
       of memory.

       In kernels before 2.6.7, the MAP_POPULATE flag has effect only if prot is specified as PROT_NONE.

       SUSv3 specifies that mmap() should fail if length is 0.  However, in kernels before 2.6.12, mmap() succeeded in this case: no mapping was created  and  the  call
       returned addr.  Since kernel 2.6.12, mmap() fails with the error EINVAL for this case.

       POSIX  specifies that the system shall always zero fill any partial page at the end of the object and that system will never write any modification of the object
       beyond its end.  On Linux, when you write data to such partial page after the end of the object, the data stays in the page cache even after the file  is  closed
       and  unmapped and even though the data is never written to the file itself, subsequent mappings may see the modified content.  In some cases, this could be fixed
       by calling msync(2) before the unmap takes place; however, this doesn't work on tmpfs(5) (for example, when using the POSIX shared memory interface documented in
       shm_overview(7)).

EXAMPLES
       The following program prints part of the file specified in its first command-line argument to standard output.  The range of bytes to be printed is specified via
       offset and length values in the second and third command-line arguments.  The program creates a memory mapping of the required pages of the file  and  then  uses
       write(2) to output the desired bytes.

   Program source
       #include <sys/mman.h>
       #include <sys/stat.h>
       #include <fcntl.h>
       #include <stdio.h>
       #include <stdlib.h>
       #include <unistd.h>

       #define handle_error(msg) \
           do { perror(msg); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } while (0)

       int
       main(int argc, char *argv[])
       {
           char *addr;
           int fd;
           struct stat sb;
           off_t offset, pa_offset;
           size_t length;
           ssize_t s;

           if (argc < 3 || argc > 4) {
               fprintf(stderr, "%s file offset [length]\n", argv[0]);
               exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
           }

           fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY);
           if (fd == -1)
               handle_error("open");

           if (fstat(fd, &sb) == -1)           /* To obtain file size */
               handle_error("fstat");

           offset = atoi(argv[2]);
           pa_offset = offset & ~(sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE) - 1);
               /* offset for mmap() must be page aligned */

           if (offset >= sb.st_size) {
               fprintf(stderr, "offset is past end of file\n");
               exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
           }

           if (argc == 4) {
               length = atoi(argv[3]);
               if (offset + length > sb.st_size)
                   length = sb.st_size - offset;
                       /* Can't display bytes past end of file */

           } else {    /* No length arg ==> display to end of file */
               length = sb.st_size - offset;
           }

           addr = mmap(NULL, length + offset - pa_offset, PROT_READ,
                       MAP_PRIVATE, fd, pa_offset);
           if (addr == MAP_FAILED)
               handle_error("mmap");

           s = write(STDOUT_FILENO, addr + offset - pa_offset, length);
           if (s != length) {
               if (s == -1)
                   handle_error("write");

               fprintf(stderr, "partial write");
               exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
           }

           munmap(addr, length + offset - pa_offset);
           close(fd);

           exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
       }

SEE ALSO
       ftruncate(2),  getpagesize(2),  memfd_create(2),  mincore(2),  mlock(2), mmap2(2), mprotect(2), mremap(2), msync(2), remap_file_pages(2), setrlimit(2), shmat(2),
       userfaultfd(2), shm_open(3), shm_overview(7)

       The descriptions of the following files in proc(5): /proc/[pid]/maps, /proc/[pid]/map_files, and /proc/[pid]/smaps.

       B.O. Gallmeister, POSIX.4, O'Reilly, pp. 128–129 and 389–391.

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