[PATCH v2 2/2] man/man2/mremap.2: describe previous undocumented shrink behaviour

[Lorenzo Stoakes]

There is pre-existing logic that appears to be undocumented for an mremap()
shrink operation, where it turns out that the usual 'input range must span
a single mapping' requirement no longer applies.

In fact, it turns out that the input range specified by [old_address,
old_size) may span any number of mappings, as long old_address resides at
or within a mapping and [old_address, new_size) spans only a single
mapping.

Explicitly document this.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 man/man2/mremap.2 | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man/man2/mremap.2 b/man/man2/mremap.2
index cb3412591..c1a9e7397 100644
--- a/man/man2/mremap.2
+++ b/man/man2/mremap.2
@@ -43,7 +43,22 @@ may span multiple mappings
 which do not have to be
 adjacent to one another.
 .P
-If the operation is not a simple move
+Equally, if the operation performs a shrink,
+that is if
+.I old_size
+is greater than
+.IR new_size ,
+then
+.I old_size
+may also span multiple mappings
+which do not have to be
+adjacent to one another.
+However in this case,
+.I new_size
+must span only a single mapping.
+.P
+If the operation is neither a simple move
+nor a shrink,
 then
 .I old_size
 must span only a single mapping.
-- 
2.50.1