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get_mempolicy(2)           System Calls Manual          get_mempolicy(2)

NAME         top

       get_mempolicy - retrieve NUMA memory policy for a thread

LIBRARY         top

       NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) policy library (libnuma, -lnuma)

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <numaif.h>

       long get_mempolicy(int *mode,
                          unsigned long nodemask[(.maxnode + ULONG_WIDTH - 1)
                                                 / ULONG_WIDTH],
                          unsigned long maxnode, void *addr,
                          unsigned long flags);

DESCRIPTION         top

       get_mempolicy() retrieves the NUMA policy of the calling thread
       or of a memory address, depending on the setting of flags.

       A NUMA machine has different memory controllers with different
       distances to specific CPUs.  The memory policy defines from which
       node memory is allocated for the thread.

       If flags is specified as 0, then information about the calling
       thread's default policy (as set by set_mempolicy(2)) is returned,
       in the buffers pointed to by mode and nodemask.  The value
       returned in these arguments may be used to restore the thread's
       policy to its state at the time of the call to get_mempolicy()
       using set_mempolicy(2).  When flags is 0, addr must be specified
       as NULL.

       If flags specifies MPOL_F_MEMS_ALLOWED (available since Linux
       2.6.24), the mode argument is ignored and the set of nodes
       (memories) that the thread is allowed to specify in subsequent
       calls to mbind(2) or set_mempolicy(2) (in the absence of any mode
       flags) is returned in nodemask.  It is not permitted to combine
       MPOL_F_MEMS_ALLOWED with either MPOL_F_ADDR or MPOL_F_NODE.

       If flags specifies MPOL_F_ADDR, then information is returned
       about the policy governing the memory address given in addr.
       This policy may be different from the thread's default policy if
       mbind(2) or one of the helper functions described in numa(3) has
       been used to establish a policy for the memory range containing
       addr.

       If the mode argument is not NULL, then get_mempolicy() will store
       the policy mode and any optional mode flags of the requested NUMA
       policy in the location pointed to by this argument.  If nodemask
       is not NULL, then the nodemask associated with the policy will be
       stored in the location pointed to by this argument.  maxnode
       specifies the number of node IDs that can be stored into
       nodemask—that is, the maximum node ID plus one.  The value
       specified by maxnode is always rounded to a multiple of
       sizeof(unsigned long)*8.

       If flags specifies both MPOL_F_NODE and MPOL_F_ADDR,
       get_mempolicy() will return the node ID of the node on which the
       address addr is allocated into the location pointed to by mode.
       If no page has yet been allocated for the specified address,
       get_mempolicy() will allocate a page as if the thread had
       performed a read (load) access to that address, and return the ID
       of the node where that page was allocated.

       If flags specifies MPOL_F_NODE, but not MPOL_F_ADDR, and the
       thread's current policy is MPOL_INTERLEAVE or
       MPOL_WEIGHTED_INTERLEAVE, then get_mempolicy() will return in the
       location pointed to by a non-NULL mode argument, the node ID of
       the next node that will be used for interleaving of internal
       kernel pages allocated on behalf of the thread.  These
       allocations include pages for memory-mapped files in process
       memory ranges mapped using the mmap(2) call with the MAP_PRIVATE
       flag for read accesses, and in memory ranges mapped with the
       MAP_SHARED flag for all accesses.

       Other flag values are reserved.

       For an overview of the possible policies see set_mempolicy(2).

RETURN VALUE         top

       On success, get_mempolicy() returns 0; on error, -1 is returned
       and errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS         top

       EFAULT Part of all of the memory range specified by nodemask and
              maxnode points outside your accessible address space.

       EINVAL The value specified by maxnode is less than the number of
              node IDs supported by the system.  Or flags specified
              values other than MPOL_F_NODE or MPOL_F_ADDR; or flags
              specified MPOL_F_ADDR and addr is NULL, or flags did not
              specify MPOL_F_ADDR and addr is not NULL.  Or, flags
              specified MPOL_F_NODE but not MPOL_F_ADDR and the current
              thread policy is neither MPOL_INTERLEAVE nor
              MPOL_WEIGHTED_INTERLEAVE.  Or, flags specified
              MPOL_F_MEMS_ALLOWED with either MPOL_F_ADDR or
              MPOL_F_NODE.  (And there are other EINVAL cases.)

STANDARDS         top

       Linux.

HISTORY         top

       Linux 2.6.7.

NOTES         top

       For information on library support, see numa(7).

SEE ALSO         top

       getcpu(2), mbind(2), mmap(2), set_mempolicy(2), numa(3), numa(7),
       numactl(8)

COLOPHON         top

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