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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-10-24 13:17:20 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-10-24 13:17:20 +0200
commit9babb091e0ec84f7503fde0a2d9a2a16a0f48e3c (patch)
tree9b6f07288b9ca9d8444414cd7da291d7c4731da7 /mm/madvise.c
parent5cdda5117e125e0dbb020425cc55a4c143c6febc (diff)
parentbb176f67090ca54869fc1262c913aa69d2ede070 (diff)
downloadlinux-9babb091e0ec84f7503fde0a2d9a2a16a0f48e3c.tar.bz2
Merge tag 'v4.14-rc6' into locking/core, to pick up fixes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/madvise.c')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index 25bade36e9ca..fd70d6aabc3e 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -757,6 +757,9 @@ madvise_behavior_valid(int behavior)
* 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_WIPEONFORK - present the child process with zero-filled memory in this
+ * range after a fork.
+ * MADV_KEEPONFORK - undo the effect of MADV_WIPEONFORK
* 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.
@@ -777,7 +780,9 @@ madvise_behavior_valid(int behavior)
* zero - success
* -EINVAL - start + len < 0, start is not page-aligned,
* "behavior" is not a valid value, or application
- * is attempting to release locked or shared pages.
+ * is attempting to release locked or shared pages,
+ * or the specified address range includes file, Huge TLB,
+ * MAP_SHARED or VMPFNMAP range.
* -ENOMEM - addresses in the specified range are not currently
* mapped, or are outside the AS of the process.
* -EIO - an I/O error occurred while paging in data.