NAME
movepages - move individual pages of a process to another node SYNOPSIS
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long movepages(int pid, unsigned long count, void **pages, const int *nodes, int *status, int flags); Link with -lnuma. DESCRIPTION movepages() moves the specified pages of the process pid to the memory nodes specified by nodes. The result of the move is reflected in sta‐ tus. The flags indicate constraints on the pages to be moved. pid is the ID of the process in which pages are to be moved. To move pages in another process, the caller must be privileged (CAPSYSNICE) or the real or effective user ID of the calling process must match the
real or saved-set user ID of the target process. If pid is 0, then movepages() moves pages of the calling process. count is the number of pages to move. It defines the size of the three arrays pages, nodes, and status. pages is an array of pointers to the pages that should be moved. These are pointers that should be aligned to page boundaries. Addresses are specified as seen by the process specified by pid. nodes is an array of integers that specify the desired location for each page. Each element in the array is a node number. nodes can also be NULL, in which case movepages() does not move any pages but instead will return the node where each page currently resides, in the status array. Obtaining the status of each page may be necessary to determine pages that need to be moved. status is an array of integers that return the status of each page. The array contains valid values only if movepages() did not return an error. flags specify what types of pages to move. MPOLMFMOVE means that only pages that are in exclusive use by the process are to be moved. MPOLMFMOVEALL means that pages shared between multiple processes can also be moved. The process must be privileged (CAPSYSNICE) to use MPOLMFMOVEALL. Page states in the status array The following values can be returned in each element of the status array. 0..MAXNUMNODES Identifies the node on which the page resides.
-EACCES The page is mapped by multiple processes and can be moved only if MPOLMFMOVEALL is specified.
-EBUSY The page is currently busy and cannot be moved. Try again later. This occurs if a page is undergoing I/O or another ker‐ nel subsystem is holding a reference to the page.
-EFAULT This is a zero page or the memory area is not mapped by the process.
-EIO Unable to write back a page. The page has to be written back in order to move it since the page is dirty and the file system does not provide a migration function that would allow the move of dirty pages.
-EINVAL A dirty page cannot be moved. The file system does not provide a migration function and has no ability to write back pages.
-ENOENT The page is not present.
-ENOMEM Unable to allocate memory on target node. RETURN VALUE
On success movepages() returns zero. On error, it returns -1, and sets errno to indicate the error. ERRORS E2BIG Too many pages to move. EACCES One of the target nodes is not allowed by the current cpuset. EFAULT Parameter array could not be accessed. EINVAL Flags other than MPOLMFMOVE and MPOLMFMOVEALL was specified or an attempt was made to migrate pages of a kernel thread. ENODEV One of the target nodes is not online. ENOENT No pages were found that require moving. All pages are either already on the target node, not present, had an invalid address or could not be moved because they were mapped by multiple pro‐ cesses. EPERM The caller specified MPOLMFMOVEALL without sufficient privi‐ leges (CAPSYSNICE). Or, the caller attempted to move pages of a process belonging to another user but did not have privilege to do so (CAPSYSNICE). ESRCH Process does not exist. VERSIONS movepages() first appeared on Linux in version 2.6.18. CONFORMING TO
This system call is Linux-specific. NOTES For information on library support, see numa(7). Use getmempolicy(2) with the MPOLFMEMSALLOWED flag to obtain the set of nodes that are allowed by the current cpuset. Note that this information is subject to change at any time by manual or automatic reconfiguration of the cpuset. Use of this function may result in pages whose location (node) violates the memory policy established for the specified addresses (See mbind(2)) and/or the specified process (See setmempolicy(2)). That is, memory policy does not constrain the destination nodes used by movepages(). The
header is not included with glibc, but requires installing libnuma-devel or a similar package. SEE ALSO getmempolicy(2), mbind(2), setmempolicy(2), numa(3), numamaps(5), cpuset(7), numa(7), migratepages(8), numastat(8) COLOPHON
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