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From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	"Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
	Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/2] man/man2/mremap.2: describe previously undocumented shrink behaviour
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:47:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <781a63ae6da11f6ade43f0aa19805877edd22c03.1753795807.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1753795807.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>

There is pre-existing logic that appears to be undocumented for an mremap()
shrink operation, where it turns out that the usual 'input range must span
a single mapping' requirement no longer applies.

In fact, it turns out that the input range specified by [old_address,
old_size) may span any number of mappings, as long old_address resides at
or within a mapping and [old_address, new_size) spans only a single
mapping.

Explicitly document this.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
---
 man/man2/mremap.2 | 20 ++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/man2/mremap.2 b/man/man2/mremap.2
index 6ba51310c..bbd807f1b 100644
--- a/man/man2/mremap.2
+++ b/man/man2/mremap.2
@@ -48,8 +48,24 @@ The
 .B MREMAP_DONTUNMAP
 flag may be specified.
 .P
-If the operation is not
-simply moving mappings,
+Equally, if the operation performs a shrink,
+that is if
+.I old_size
+is greater than
+.IR new_size ,
+then
+.I old_size
+may also span multiple mappings
+which do not have to be
+adjacent to one another.
+However in this case,
+.I new_size
+must span only a single mapping.
+.P
+If the operation is neither a
+.B MREMAP_FIXED
+move
+nor a shrink,
 then
 .I old_size
 must span only a single mapping.
-- 
2.50.1



      parent reply	other threads:[~2025-07-29 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-07-29 13:47 [PATCH v3 0/2] man/man2/mremap.2: describe multiple mapping move, shrink Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-29 13:47 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] man/man2/mremap.2: describe multiple mapping move Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-02 16:14   ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-08-03  6:47   ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-08-03 11:15     ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-03 14:17       ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-08-04 13:31         ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-29 13:47 ` Lorenzo Stoakes [this message]

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