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| author | Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> | 2016-03-15 22:56:58 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-03-16 00:55:16 +0100 |
| commit | d7206a70af5c094446927b5dea8704f0f96303e3 (patch) | |
| tree | 3cf439ab82a213e8e8ea0053869e621285b7244f /mm/madvise.c | |
| parent | mm: vmscan: do not clear SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE if nr_node_ids == 1 (diff) | |
| download | linux-d7206a70af5c094446927b5dea8704f0f96303e3.tar.xz linux-d7206a70af5c094446927b5dea8704f0f96303e3.zip | |
mm/madvise: update comment on sys_madvise()
Some new MADV_* advices are not documented in sys_madvise() comment. So
let's update it.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: modifications suggested by Michal]
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/madvise.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/madvise.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c index 6a7711436c5b..a01147359f3b 100644 --- a/mm/madvise.c +++ b/mm/madvise.c @@ -639,14 +639,28 @@ madvise_behavior_valid(int behavior) * some pages ahead. * MADV_DONTNEED - the application is finished with the given range, * so the kernel can free resources associated with it. + * MADV_FREE - the application marks pages in the given range as lazy free, + * where actual purges are postponed until memory pressure happens. * MADV_REMOVE - the application wants to free up the given range of * pages and associated backing store. * MADV_DONTFORK - omit this area from child's address space when forking: * typically, to avoid COWing pages pinned by get_user_pages(). * MADV_DOFORK - cancel MADV_DONTFORK: no longer omit this area when forking. + * MADV_HWPOISON - trigger memory error handler as if the given memory range + * were corrupted by unrecoverable hardware memory failure. + * MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE - try to soft-offline the given range of memory. * MADV_MERGEABLE - the application recommends that KSM try to merge pages in * this area with pages of identical content from other such areas. * MADV_UNMERGEABLE- cancel MADV_MERGEABLE: no longer merge pages with others. + * MADV_HUGEPAGE - the application wants to back the given range by transparent + * huge pages in the future. Existing pages might be coalesced and + * new pages might be allocated as THP. + * MADV_NOHUGEPAGE - mark the given range as not worth being backed by + * transparent huge pages so the existing pages will not be + * coalesced into THP and new pages will not be allocated as THP. + * MADV_DONTDUMP - the application wants to prevent pages in the given range + * from being included in its core dump. + * MADV_DODUMP - cancel MADV_DONTDUMP: no longer exclude from core dump. * * return values: * zero - success |