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From: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, nilal@redhat.com,
	"Florian Weimer" <fweimer@redhat.com>,
	"Colm MacCártaigh" <colm@allcosts.net>,
	"Mike Kravetz" <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
	"Ian Rogers" <irogers@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH] proc.5: add "wf" to VmFlags in /proc/[pid]/smaps
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 15:25:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200521222551.259804-1-irogers@google.com> (raw)

This patch documents a flag added in the following kernel commit:

commit d2cd9ede6e193dd7d88b6d27399e96229a551b19
Author: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed Sep 6 16:25:15 2017 -0700

    mm,fork: introduce MADV_WIPEONFORK

This was already documented in man2/madvise.2 in the commit:

commit c0c4f6c29c494c466f3a2a6273c5b55b76a72927
Author: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue Sep 19 20:32:00 2017 +0200

    madvise.2: Document MADV_WIPEONFORK and MADV_KEEPONFORK

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
---
 man5/proc.5 | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
index 46d603f28..3e5b91af0 100644
--- a/man5/proc.5
+++ b/man5/proc.5
@@ -2020,6 +2020,7 @@ encoded using the following two-letter codes:
     ht  - area uses huge tlb pages
     nl  - non-linear mapping
     ar  - architecture specific flag
+    wf  - wipe on fork
     dd  - do not include area into core dump
     sd  - soft-dirty flag
     mm  - mixed map area
-- 
2.27.0.rc0.183.gde8f92d652-goog


             reply	other threads:[~2020-05-21 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-21 22:25 Ian Rogers [this message]
2020-05-21 23:13 ` [PATCH] proc.5: add "wf" to VmFlags in /proc/[pid]/smaps Ian Rogers
2020-05-25 13:50   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-05-25 14:59     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-05-25 18:50       ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-05-25 13:48 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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