From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
"Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] madvise.2: update MADV_GUARD_INSTALL, MADV_GUARD_REMOVE description
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 21:06:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250317210653.273728-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> (raw)
Lightweight guard region support has been extended in Linux 6.15,
permitting the use of these features for file-backed and read-only
mappings.
Update the description for these operations in the madvise manpage to
describe the changed behaviour.
---
man/man2/madvise.2 | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/man2/madvise.2 b/man/man2/madvise.2
index bd2b90b7a..37492c8cf 100644
--- a/man/man2/madvise.2
+++ b/man/man2/madvise.2
@@ -697,9 +697,22 @@ is applied to regions
containing pre-existing lightweight guard regions,
they are left in place.
.IP
-This operation is supported
-only for writable anonymous private mappings
-which have not been mlock'd.
+Prior to Linux v6.15 This operation was supported
+only for writable anonymous private mappings.
+Since Linux v6.15 both anonymous and file-backed
+mappings are supported, including read-only mappings.
+.IP
+The mapping must not be mlock'd,
+nor can they map hugetlb ranges
+or special mappings
+for example,
+mappings marked with kernel-internal flags such as
+.B VM_PFNMAP
+or
+.BR VM_IO ,
+or secret memory regions created using
+.BR memfd_secret(2) .
+.IP
An
.B EINVAL
error is returned if it is attempted on any other kind of mapping.
@@ -756,19 +769,23 @@ and
.IP
All mappings in the range
other than lightweight guard regions
-are left in place
-(including mlock'd mappings).
-The operation is,
-however,
-valid only for writable anonymous private mappings,
+are left in place.
+The operation is supported on those mappings
+permitted by
+.B MADV_GUARD_INSTALL
+in addition to mlock()'d mappings,
returning an
.B EINVAL
error otherwise.
.IP
When lightweight guard regions are removed,
they act as empty regions of the containing mapping.
-Since only writable anonymous private mappings are supported,
-they therefore become zero-fill-on-demand pages.
+Anonymous private mappings therefore become
+zero-fill-on-demand pages,
+and file-backed mappings are repopulating with the
+memory contents from the up-to-date contents of the
+underlying mapped file.
+
.IP
If any transparent huge pages are encountered in the operation,
they are left in place.
--
2.48.1
next reply other threads:[~2025-03-17 21:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-03-17 21:06 Lorenzo Stoakes [this message]
2025-03-23 20:15 ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-04-23 9:37 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-04-23 10:05 ` Alejandro Colomar
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