Re: [PATCH] mlock.2: mlock2.2: Add entry to for new mlock2 syscall

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Mon Aug 31 2015 - 05:23:10 EST


On Fri 28-08-15 14:43:11, Eric B Munson wrote:
> Update the mlock.2 man page with information on mlock2() and the new
> mlockall() flag MCL_ONFAULT.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

I am not familiar with the format much so I am just looking at the text
and that looks reasonable to me. Just one note below:

> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-man@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> man2/mlock.2 | 109 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> man2/mlock2.2 | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 man2/mlock2.2
>
> diff --git a/man2/mlock.2 b/man2/mlock.2
> index 79c544d..8f51926 100644
> --- a/man2/mlock.2
> +++ b/man2/mlock.2
[...]
> +The
> +.I flags
> +argument can be either 0 or the following constant:
> +.TP 1.2i
> +.B MLOCK_ONFAULT
> +Lock pages that are currently resident and mark the entire range to have
> +pages locked when they are faulted in.

@faulted in@populated by the page fault@.

would be probably better.

[...]
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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