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.Dd May 2, 2018
.Dt MREMAP 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm mremap
.Nd re-map a virtual memory address
.\" ------------------------------------------------------------
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libc
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/mman.h
.Ft void *
.Fn mremap "void *oldp" "size_t oldsize" "void *newp" "size_t newsize" \
"int flags"
.\" ------------------------------------------------------------
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn mremap
function resizes the mapped range (see
.Xr mmap 2 )
starting at
.Ar oldp
and having size
.Ar oldsize
to
.Ar newsize .
The following arguments can be
.Dv OR Ap ed
together in the
.Ar flags
argument:
.Bl -tag -width XXMAPXALIGNEDXnXX
.It Dv MAP_ALIGNED Ns Pq Ar n
The allocation should be aligned to the given boundary, i.e. ensure
that the lowest
.Ar n
bits of the address are zero.
The parameter
.Ar n
should be the base 2 logarithm of the desired alignment (e.g., to
request alignment to 16K, use 14 as the value for n).
The alignment must be equal to or greater than the platform's page
size as returned by
.Xr sysconf 3
with the
.Dv _SC_PAGESIZE
request.
.It Dv MAP_FIXED
.Ar newp
is tried and
.Fn mremap
fails if that address can't be used as new base address for the range.
Otherwise,
.Ar oldp
and
.Ar newp
are used as hints for the position, factoring in the given alignment.
.It Dv MAP_REMAPDUP
Duplicate the mapping.
Both address ranges reference the same pages, but can have different protection flags.
.El
.Sh RETURN VALUES
.Fn mremap
returns the new address or
.Dv MAP_FAILED ,
if the remap failed.
.Sh EXAMPLES
The following example program creates a two mappings for the same
memory range, one RW- and one R-X.
.Bd -literal
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <err.h>

static int
return_1(void)
{
	return 1;
}

static void
return_1_end(void)
{
}

static int
return_2(void)
{
	return 2;
}

static void
return_2_end(void)
{
}

int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
        void *maprw, *maprx;
	int rv;
	size_t page = (size_t)sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE);

	// Create the first mapping that has no protections, but intended
	// protections only
	maprw = mmap(NULL, page,
	    PROT_MPROTECT(PROT_EXEC|PROT_WRITE|PROT_READ),
            MAP_ANON, -1, 0);
	if (maprw == MAP_FAILED)
		err(EXIT_FAILURE, "mmap failed");

        // Create the second mapping for the same physical space, which
	// again has no protections.
	maprx = mremap(maprw, page, NULL, page, MAP_REMAPDUP);
	if (maprx == MAP_FAILED)
		err(EXIT_FAILURE, "mremap failed");

	// Set the first mapping read/write
        if (mprotect(maprw, page, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE) == -1)
		err(EXIT_FAILURE, "mprotect(rw) failed");

	// Set the second mapping read/execute
        if (mprotect(maprx, page, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC) == -1)
		err(EXIT_FAILURE, "mprotect(rx) failed");

#define XS(a) (size_t)((uintptr_t)(a ## _end) - (uintptr_t)(a))

	// Copy and run the first function
	memcpy(maprw, return_1, XS(return_1));
	__builtin___clear_cache(maprw, (void *)((uintptr_t)maprw + page));
	rv = ((int (*)(void))maprx)();
	printf("%d\en", rv);

	// Copy and run the second function
	memcpy(maprw, return_2, XS(return_2));
	__builtin___clear_cache(maprw, (void *)((uintptr_t)maprw + page));
	rv = ((int (*)(void))maprx)();
	printf("%d\en", rv);

	return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
.Ed
.Sh COMPATIBILITY
The semantics of
.Fn mremap
differ from the one provided by glibc on Linux in that the
.Ar newp
argument was added and a different set of
.Ar flags
are implemented.
.Sh ERRORS
The
.Fn mremap
function fails if:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er E2BIG
A request to extend
.Fa oldp
failed because of address overflow.
.It Bq Er EINVAL
If
.Fa oldp
or
.Fa newp
are not page aligned, or
.Fa oldsize
or
.Fa newsize
are not a multiple of the page size, or if
.Fa oldp +
.Fa oldsize
or
.Fa newp +
.Fa newsize
wrap around, or if an invalid alignment was requested in the
.Fa flags
argument, or if the request was to extend
.Fa oldp
and the extension address space either did not fit, was already occupied,
or had set permissions.
.It Bq Er ENOENT
If the
.Fa oldp
segmented was not already mapped.
.It Bq Er ENOMEM
If there was either no space to allocate/move memory,
or if a fixed allocation was requested in the
.Fa flags
that could not be accommodated.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mmap 2 ,
.Xr munmap 2
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Fn mremap
system call appeared in
.Nx 5.0 .
It was based on the code that supports
.Fn mremap
compatibility for Linux binaries.