NAME |LIBRARY |SYNOPSIS |DESCRIPTION |RETURN VALUE |ERRORS |STANDARDS |HISTORY |SEE ALSO |COLOPHON | |
PR_SET_MM_ARG_START(2const)PR_SET_MM_ARG_START(2const)PR_SET_MM_ARG_START, PR_SET_MM_ARG_END, PR_SET_MM_ENV_START, PR_SET_MM_ENV_END - modify kernel memory map descriptor fields
Standard C library (libc,-lc)
#include <linux/prctl.h>/* Definition ofPR_*constants */#include <sys/prctl.h>int prctl(PR_SET_MM, PR_SET_MM_ARG_START, unsigned longaddr, 0L, 0L);int prctl(PR_SET_MM, PR_SET_MM_ARG_END, unsigned longaddr, 0L, 0L);int prctl(PR_SET_MM, PR_SET_MM_ENV_START, unsigned longaddr, 0L, 0L);int prctl(PR_SET_MM, PR_SET_MM_ENV_END, unsigned longaddr, 0L, 0L);
PR_SET_MM_ARG_START Set the address above which the program command line is placed.PR_SET_MM_ARG_END Set the address below which the program command line is placed.PR_SET_MM_ENV_START Set the address above which the program environment is placed.PR_SET_MM_ENV_END Set the address below which the program environment is placed. The address passed with these calls should belong to a process stack area. Thus, the corresponding memory area must be readable, writable, and (depending on the kernel configuration) have theMAP_GROWSDOWNattribute set (seemmap(2)).
On success, 0 is returned. On error, -1 is returned, anderrno is set to indicate the error.
EINVALaddr is greater thanTASK_SIZE(the limit on the size of the user address space for this architecture).
Linux.
Linux 3.5.
prctl(2),PR_SET_MM(2const)
This page is part of theman-pages (Linux kernel and C library user-space interface documentation) project. Information about the project can be found at ⟨https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/⟩. If you have a bug report for this manual page, see ⟨https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/CONTRIBUTING⟩. This page was obtained from the tarball man-pages-6.15.tar.gz fetched from ⟨https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/⟩ on 2025-08-11. If you discover any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is a better or more up- to-date source for the page, or you have corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON (which isnot part of the original manual page), send a mail to man-pages@man7.orgLinux man-pages 6.15 2025-05-17PR_SET_MM_ARG_START(2const)Pages that refer to this page:PR_SET_MM(2const), PR_SET_MM_MAP(2const)
HTML rendering created 2025-09-06 byMichael Kerrisk, author ofThe Linux Programming Interface. For details of in-depthLinux/UNIX system programming training courses that I teach, lookhere. Hosting byjambit GmbH. | ![]() |