CreateFileMappingNumaA function (winbase.h)
Creates or opens a named or unnamed file mapping object for a specified file and specifies the NUMA node for the physical memory.
Syntax
HANDLE CreateFileMappingNumaA(
[in] HANDLE hFile,
[in, optional] LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpFileMappingAttributes,
[in] DWORD flProtect,
[in] DWORD dwMaximumSizeHigh,
[in] DWORD dwMaximumSizeLow,
[in, optional] LPCSTR lpName,
[in] DWORD nndPreferred
);
Parameters
[in] hFile
A handle to the file from which to create a file mapping object.
The file must be opened with access rights that are compatible with the protection flags that the flProtect parameter specifies. It is not required, but it is recommended that files you intend to map be opened for exclusive access. For more information, see File Security and Access Rights.
If hFile is INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE, the calling process must also specify a size for the file mapping object in the dwMaximumSizeHigh and dwMaximumSizeLow parameters. In this scenario, CreateFileMappingNuma creates a file mapping object of a specified size that is backed by the system paging file instead of by a file in the file system.
[in, optional] lpFileMappingAttributes
A pointer to a SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES
structure that determines whether a returned handle can be inherited by child processes. The
lpSecurityDescriptor member of the
SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES structure specifies a
security descriptor for a new file mapping object.
If lpFileMappingAttributes is NULL, the handle cannot be inherited and the file mapping object gets a default security descriptor. The access control lists (ACL) in the default security descriptor for a file mapping object come from the primary or impersonation token of the creator. For more information, see File Mapping Security and Access Rights.
[in] flProtect
Specifies the page protection of the file mapping object. All mapped views of the object must be compatible with this protection.
This parameter can be one of the following values.
An application can specify one or more of the following attributes for the file mapping object by combining them with one of the preceding page protection values.
| Value | Meaning |
|---|---|
|
Allocates physical storage in memory or the paging file for all pages.
This is the default setting. |
|
Sets the file that is specified to be an executable image file.
The SEC_IMAGE attribute must be combined with a page protection value such as PAGE_READONLY. However, this page protection value has no effect on views of the executable image file. Page protection for views of an executable image file is determined by the executable file itself. No other attributes are valid with SEC_IMAGE. |
|
Specifies that the file that the hFile parameter specifies is an executable
image file that will not be executed and the loaded image file will have no forced integrity checks run.
Additionally, mapping a view of a file mapping object created with the
SEC_IMAGE_NO_EXECUTE attribute will not invoke driver callbacks registered using
the PsSetLoadImageNotifyRoutine
kernel API.
The SEC_IMAGE_NO_EXECUTE attribute must be combined with the PAGE_READONLY page protection value. No other attributes are valid with SEC_IMAGE_NO_EXECUTE. Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista: This value is not supported before Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. |
|
Enables large pages to be used when mapping images or backing from the pagefile, but not when mapping data for regular files. Be sure to specify the maximum size of the file mapping object as the minimum size of a large page reported by the GetLargePageMinimum function and to enable the SeLockMemoryPrivilege privilege. |
|
Sets all pages to noncachable.
Applications should not use this flag except when explicitly required for a device. Using the interlocked functions with memory mapped with SEC_NOCACHE can result in an EXCEPTION_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION exception. SEC_NOCACHE requires either SEC_RESERVE or SEC_COMMIT to be set. |
|
Reserves all pages without allocating physical storage.
The reserved range of pages cannot be used by any other allocation operations until the range of pages is released. Reserved pages can be identified in subsequent calls to the VirtualAllocExNuma function. This attribute is valid only if the hFile parameter is INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE (that is, a file mapping object that is backed by the system paging file). |
|
Sets all pages to be write-combined.
Applications should not use this attribute except when explicitly required for a device. Using the interlocked functions with memory that is mapped with SEC_WRITECOMBINE can result in an EXCEPTION_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION exception. SEC_WRITECOMBINE requires either the SEC_RESERVE or SEC_COMMIT attribute to be set. |
[in] dwMaximumSizeHigh
The high-order DWORD of the maximum size of the file mapping object.
[in] dwMaximumSizeLow
The low-order DWORD of the maximum size of the file mapping object.
If this parameter and the dwMaximumSizeHigh parameter are 0 (zero), the maximum size of the file mapping object is equal to the current size of the file that the hFile parameter identifies.
An attempt to map a file with a length of 0 (zero) fails with an error code of ERROR_FILE_INVALID. Applications should test for files with a length of 0 (zero) and reject those files.
[in, optional] lpName
The name of the file mapping object.
If this parameter matches the name of an existing file mapping object, the function requests access to the object with the protection that the flProtect parameter specifies.
If this parameter is NULL, the file mapping object is created without a name.
If the lpName parameter matches the name of an existing event, semaphore, mutex, waitable timer, or job object, the function fails and the GetLastError function returns ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE. This occurs because these objects share the same namespace.
The name can have a "Global" or "Local" prefix to explicitly create the object in the global or session namespace. The remainder of the name can contain any character except the backslash character (\). Creating a file mapping object in the global namespace requires the SeCreateGlobalPrivilege privilege. For more information, see Kernel Object Namespaces.
Fast user switching is implemented by using Terminal Services sessions. The first user to log on uses session 0 (zero), the next user to log on uses session 1 (one), and so on. Kernel object names must follow the guidelines so that applications can support multiple users.
[in] nndPreferred
The NUMA node where the physical memory should reside.
| Value | Meaning |
|---|---|
|
No NUMA node is preferred. This is the same as calling the CreateFileMapping function. |
Return value
If the function succeeds, the return value is a handle to the file mapping object.
If the object exists before the function call, the function returns a handle to the existing object (with its current size, not the specified size) and the GetLastError function returns ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS.
If the function fails, the return value is NULL. To get extended error information, call the GetLastError function.
Remarks
After a file mapping object is created, the size of the file must not exceed the size of the file mapping object; if it does, not all of the file contents are available for sharing.
The file mapping object can be shared by duplication, inheritance, or by name. The initial contents of the pages in a file mapping object backed by the page file are 0 (zero).
If an application specifies a size for the file mapping object that is larger than the size of the actual named file on disk and if the page protection allows write access (that is, the flProtect parameter specifies PAGE_READWRITE or PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE), then the file on disk is increased to match the specified size of the file mapping object. If the file is extended, the contents of the file between the old end of the file and the new end of the file are not guaranteed to be zero; the behavior is defined by the file system.
If the file cannot be increased, the result is a failure to create the file mapping object and the GetLastError function returns ERROR_DISK_FULL.
The handle that the CreateFileMappingNuma function returns has full access to a new file mapping object and can be used with any function that requires a handle to a file mapping object. A file mapping object can be shared through process creation, handle duplication, or by name. For more information, see the DuplicateHandle and OpenFileMapping functions.
Creating a file mapping object creates the potential for mapping a view of the file but does not map the view. The MapViewOfFileExNuma function maps a view of a file into a process address space.
With one important exception, file views derived from a single file mapping object are coherent or identical at a specific time. If multiple processes have handles of the same file mapping object, they see a coherent view of the data when they map a view of the file.
The exception is related to remote files. Although the CreateFileMappingNuma function works with remote files, it does not keep them coherent. For example, if two computers both map a file as writable and both change the same page, each computer sees only its own writes to the page. When the data gets updated on the disk, the page is not merged.
A mapped file and a file that is accessed by using the input and output (I/O) functions (ReadFile and WriteFile) are not necessarily coherent.
To fully close a file mapping object, an application must unmap all mapped views of the file mapping object by calling the UnmapViewOfFile function and then close the file mapping object handle by calling the CloseHandle function.
These functions can be called in any order. The call to the UnmapViewOfFile function is necessary, because mapped views of a file mapping object maintain internal open handles to the object, and a file mapping object does not close until all open handles to it are closed.
When modifying a file through a mapped view, the last modification timestamp may not be updated automatically. If required, the caller should use SetFileTime to set the timestamp.
Creating a file-mapping object from a session other than session zero requires the SeCreateGlobalPrivilege privilege. Note that this privilege check is limited to the creation of file mapping objects and does not apply to opening existing ones. For example, if a service or the system creates a file mapping object, any process running in any session can access that file mapping object provided that the caller has the required access rights.
Use structured exception handling to protect any code that writes to or reads from a memory mapped view. For more information, see Reading and Writing From a File View.
To have a mapping with executable permissions, an application must call the
CreateFileMappingNuma function with either
PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE or PAGE_EXECUTE_READ and then call the
MapViewOfFileExNuma function with
FILE_MAP_EXECUTE | FILE_MAP_WRITE or
FILE_MAP_EXECUTE | FILE_MAP_READ.
In Windows Server 2012, this function is supported by the following technologies.
| Technology | Supported |
|---|---|
| Server Message Block (SMB) 3.0 protocol | Yes |
| SMB 3.0 Transparent Failover (TFO) | Yes |
| SMB 3.0 with Scale-out File Shares (SO) | Yes |
| Cluster Shared Volume File System (CsvFS) | Yes |
| Resilient File System (ReFS) | Yes |
Requirements
| Requirement | Value |
|---|---|
| Minimum supported client | Windows Vista [desktop apps only] |
| Minimum supported server | Windows Server 2008 [desktop apps only] |
| Target Platform | Windows |
| Header | winbase.h (include Windows.h, Memoryapi.h) |
| Library | Kernel32.lib |
| DLL | Kernel32.dll |