ScavengeMem

Returns task's free memory pages to the system memory pool.

Synopsis

int32 ScavengeMem( void )

Description

This procedure finds pages of memory in the task's free memory pool from which no memory is allocated and returns those pages to the system-wide memory pool.

If there is not enough memory in a task's free memory pool to satisfy a memory-allocation request, AllocMem() tries to get reclaim the necessary memory by calling ScavengeMem().

Return Value

The procedure returns the amount of memory that was returned to the system-wide memory pool, in bytes. If no memory was returned, the procedure returns 0.

Implementation

Folio call implemented in kernel folio V20.

Associated Files

mem.h
ANSI C Prototype
clib.lib
ARM Link Library

See Also

AllocMem(), AllocMemFromMemLists(), FreeMem(), FreeMemToMemLists()