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27.\" ------------------------------------------------------------
28.Dd February 14, 2008
29.Dt MREMAP 2
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm mremap
33.Nd re-map a virtual memory address
34.\" ------------------------------------------------------------
35.Sh LIBRARY
36.Lb libc
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.In sys/mman.h
39.Ft void *
40.Fn mremap "void *oldp" "size_t oldsize" "void *newp" "size_t newsize" \
41"int flags"
42.\" ------------------------------------------------------------
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44The
45.Fn mremap
46function resizes the mapped range (see
47.Xr mmap 2 )
48starting at
49.Ar oldp
50and having size
51.Ar oldsize
52to
53.Ar newsize .
54The following arguments can be
55.Dv OR Ap ed
56together in the
57.Ar flags
58argument:
59.Bl -tag -width XXMAPXALIGNEDXnXX
60.It Dv MAP_ALIGNED Ns Pq Ar n
61The allocation should be aligned to the given boundary, i.e. ensure
62that the lowest
63.Ar n
64bits of the address are zero.
65The parameter
66.Ar n
67should be the base 2 logarithm of the desired alignment (e.g., to
68request alignment to 16K, use 14 as the value for n).
69The alignment must be equal to or greater than the platform's page
70size as returned by
71.Xr sysconf 3
72with the
73.Dv _SC_PAGESIZE
74request.
75.It Dv MAP_FIXED
76.Ar newp
77is tried and
78.Fn mremap
79fails if that address can't be used as new base address for the range.
80Otherwise,
81.Ar oldp
82and
83.Ar newp
84are used as hints for the position, factoring in the given alignment.
85.El
86.Sh RETURN VALUES
87.Fn mremap
88returns the new address or
89.Dv MAP_FAILED ,
90if the remap failed.
91.Sh COMPATIBILITY
92The semantics of
93.Fn mremap
94differ from the one provided by glibc on Linux in that the
95.Ar newp
96argument was added and a different set of
97.Ar flags
98are implemented.
99.Sh SEE ALSO
100.Xr mmap 2 ,
101.Xr munmap 2
102.Sh HISTORY
103The
104.Fn mremap
105system call appeared in
106.Nx 5.0 .
107It was based on the code that supports
108.Fn mremap
109compatibility for Linux binaries.
110