VM_FAULT_PREFAULT(9) | FreeBSD Kernel Developer's Manual | VM_FAULT_PREFAULT(9) |
NAME
vm_fault_prefault — cluster page faults into a process's address spaceSYNOPSIS
#include < sys/param.h>#include < vm/vm.h>
#include < vm/pmap.h>
void
vm_fault_prefault( pmap_t pmap, vm_offset_t addra, vm_map_entry_t entry);
DESCRIPTION
The vm_fault_prefault() function provides a means of clustering pagefaults into a process's address space. It operates upon the physical map pmap. The entry argument specifies the entry to be prefaulted; the addra argument specifies the beginning of the mapping in the process's virtual address space.It is typically called by vm_fault() after the first page fault. It benefits the execve(2) system call by eliminating repetitive calls to vm_fault(), which would otherwise be made to bring the process's executable pages into physical memory.
IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
This is a machine-independent function which calls the machine-dependent pmap_is_prefaultable(9) helper function to determine if a page may be prefaulted into physical memory.AUTHORS
This manual page was written by <bms@spc.org>.July 21, 2003 | FreeBSD |