From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>,
Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v1] mm/madvise: update comment on sys_madvise()
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 10:24:25 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1453857865-13650-1-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> (raw)
Some new MADV_* advices are not documented in sys_madvise() comment.
So let's update it.
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
---
mm/madvise.c | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git v4.4-mmotm-2016-01-20-16-10/mm/madvise.c v4.4-mmotm-2016-01-20-16-10_patched/mm/madvise.c
index 6a77114..c897b15 100644
--- v4.4-mmotm-2016-01-20-16-10/mm/madvise.c
+++ v4.4-mmotm-2016-01-20-16-10_patched/mm/madvise.c
@@ -639,14 +639,26 @@ madvise_behavior_valid(int behavior)
* some pages ahead.
* MADV_DONTNEED - the application is finished with the given range,
* so the kernel can free resources associated with it.
+ * MADV_FREE - the application marks pages in the given range as lasyfree,
+ * where actual purges are postponed until memory pressure happens.
* MADV_REMOVE - the application wants to free up the given range of
* pages and associated backing store.
* MADV_DONTFORK - omit this area from child's address space when forking:
* typically, to avoid COWing pages pinned by get_user_pages().
* MADV_DOFORK - cancel MADV_DONTFORK: no longer omit this area when forking.
+ * MADV_HWPOISON - trigger memory error handler as if the given memory range
+ * were corrupted by unrecoverable hardware memory failure.
+ * MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE - try to soft-offline the given range of memory.
* MADV_MERGEABLE - the application recommends that KSM try to merge pages in
* this area with pages of identical content from other such areas.
* MADV_UNMERGEABLE- cancel MADV_MERGEABLE: no longer merge pages with others.
+ * MADV_HUGEPAGE - the application wants to allocate transparent hugepages to
+ * load the content of the given memory range.
+ * MADV_NOHUGEPAGE - cancel MADV_HUGEPAGE: no longer allocate transparent
+ * hugepages.
+ * MADV_DONTDUMP - the application wants to prevent pages in the given range
+ * from being included in its core dump.
+ * MADV_DODUMP - cancel MADV_DONTDUMP: no longer exclude from core dump.
*
* return values:
* zero - success
--
2.7.0
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next reply other threads:[~2016-01-27 1:24 UTC|newest]
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2016-01-27 1:24 Naoya Horiguchi [this message]
2016-01-27 15:28 ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-28 5:50 ` Naoya Horiguchi
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