From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>,
Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org,
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] madvise.2: Document MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2021 09:11:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6c7543e4-23c8-8f2d-dc89-480be13738b3@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51ec094e-e402-d8a4-d65f-24b8d7929707@gmail.com>
Hi Alex,
>>> ---
>>> man2/madvise.2 | 80 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> 1 file changed, 80 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/man2/madvise.2 b/man2/madvise.2
>>> index f1f384c0c..3ec8c53a7 100644
>>> --- a/man2/madvise.2
>>> +++ b/man2/madvise.2
>>> @@ -469,6 +469,59 @@ If a page is file-backed and dirty, it will be written back to the backing
>>> storage.
>>> The advice might be ignored for some pages in the range when it is not
>>> applicable.
>>> +.TP
>>> +.BR MADV_POPULATE_READ " (since Linux 5.14)
>
> s/$/"/
Thanks!
>
>>> +Populate (prefault) page tables readable for the whole range without actually
>
> See the following extract from man-pages(7):
>
> $ man 7 man-pages | sed -n '/Use semantic newlines/,/^$/p';
> Use semantic newlines
> In the source of a manual page, new sentences should be
> started on new lines, and long sentences should split into
> lines at clause breaks (commas, semicolons, colons, and so
> on). This convention, sometimes known as "semantic new‐
> lines", makes it easier to see the effect of patches, which
> often operate at the level of individual sentences or sen‐
> tence clauses.
Thanks, something like the following (also limiting to 80 characters
per page) work?
"
Populate (prefault) page tables readable for the whole range without actually
reading.
Depending on the underlying mapping,
map the shared zeropage,
preallocate memory or read the underlying file;
files with holes might or might not preallocate blocks.
"
>
>>> +reading. Depending on the underlying mapping, map the shared zeropage,
>>> +preallocate memory or read the underlying file; files with holes might or
>>> +might not preallocate blocks.
>>> +Do not generate
>>> +.B SIGBUS
>>> +when populating fails, return an error instead.
>>> +.IP
>>> +If
>>> +.B MADV_POPULATE_READ
>>> +succeeds, all page tables have been populated (prefaulted) readable once.
>>> +If
>>> +.B MADV_POPULATE_READ
>>> +fails, some page tables might have been populated.
>>> +.IP
>>> +.B MADV_POPULATE_READ
>>> +cannot be applied to mappings without read permissions
>>> +and special mappings marked with the kernel-internal
>>> +.B VM_PFNMAP
>>> +and
>>> +.BR VM_IO .
>>> +.IP
>>> +Note that with
>>> +.BR MADV_POPULATE_READ ,
>>> +the process can be killed at any moment when the system runs out of memory.
>>> +.TP
>>> +.BR MADV_POPULATE_WRITE " (since Linux 5.14)
>
> s/$/"/
Thanks!
--
Thanks,
David / dhildenb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-26 7:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-12 8:39 [PATCH v1] madvise.2: Document MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE David Hildenbrand
2021-07-12 9:58 ` Pankaj Gupta
2021-07-12 10:03 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-07-12 10:17 ` Pankaj Gupta
2021-07-25 20:15 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-07-26 7:11 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2021-07-12 11:05 ` Pankaj Gupta
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