From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, 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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc.5: add "wf" to VmFlags in /proc/[pid]/smaps
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 15:48:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <72cb0b2e-4487-c3f3-4406-572f146be91a@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200521222551.259804-1-irogers@google.com>
Hello Ian,
On 5/22/20 12:25 AM, Ian Rogers wrote:
> 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
Thanks. Patch applied.
Cheers,
Michael
> 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
>
--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-25 13:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-21 22:25 [PATCH] proc.5: add "wf" to VmFlags in /proc/[pid]/smaps Ian Rogers
2020-05-21 23:13 ` 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) [this message]
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