[PATCH 1/1] man/set_mempolicy.2,mbind.2: forbid static or relative flags for local NUMA mode

From: Piotr Kwapulinski
Date: Tue Sep 27 2016 - 09:28:20 EST


Add documentation for the following patch:
[PATCH v2 0/1] mm/mempolicy.c: forbid static or relative flags
for local NUMA mode

Signed-off-by: Piotr Kwapulinski <kwapulinski.piotr@xxxxxxxxx>
---
man2/mbind.2 | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
man2/set_mempolicy.2 | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 70 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man2/mbind.2 b/man2/mbind.2
index 3ea24f6..8c50948 100644
--- a/man2/mbind.2
+++ b/man2/mbind.2
@@ -375,6 +375,41 @@ argument specified both
.B MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES
and
.BR MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES .
+Or, the
+.I mode
+argument specifies
+.B MPOL_PREFERRED
+and
+.B MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES
+flag and
+.I nodemask
+is empty. Or, the
+.I mode
+argument specifies
+.B MPOL_PREFERRED
+and
+.B MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES
+flag and
+.I nodemask
+is empty. Or, the
+.I mode
+is
+.B MPOL_LOCAL
+and
+.I nodemask
+is empty. Or, the
+.I mode
+argument specifies
+.B MPOL_LOCAL
+and
+.B MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES
+flag. Or, the
+.I mode
+argument specifies
+.B MPOL_LOCAL
+and
+.B MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES
+flag.
.TP
.B EIO
.B MPOL_MF_STRICT
diff --git a/man2/set_mempolicy.2 b/man2/set_mempolicy.2
index 1f02037..9204941 100644
--- a/man2/set_mempolicy.2
+++ b/man2/set_mempolicy.2
@@ -269,6 +269,41 @@ argument specified both
.B MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES
and
.BR MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES .
+Or, the
+.I mode
+argument specifies
+.B MPOL_PREFERRED
+and
+.B MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES
+flag and
+.I nodemask
+is empty. Or, the
+.I mode
+argument specifies
+.B MPOL_PREFERRED
+and
+.B MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES
+flag and
+.I nodemask
+is empty. Or, the
+.I mode
+is
+.B MPOL_LOCAL
+and
+.I nodemask
+is empty. Or, the
+.I mode
+argument specifies
+.B MPOL_LOCAL
+and
+.B MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES
+flag. Or, the
+.I mode
+argument specifies
+.B MPOL_LOCAL
+and
+.B MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES
+flag.
.TP
.B ENOMEM
Insufficient kernel memory was available.
--
2.10.0