On 09/17/2017 06:52 PM, Jann Horn wrote: > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [...] >> A recent change was made to mremap so that an attempt to create a >> duplicate a private mapping will fail. >> >> commit dba58d3b8c5045ad89c1c95d33d01451e3964db7 >> Author: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Date: Wed Sep 6 16:20:55 2017 -0700 >> >> mm/mremap: fail map duplication attempts for private mappings >> >> This return code is also documented here. > [...] >> diff --git a/man2/mremap.2 b/man2/mremap.2 > [...] >> @@ -174,7 +189,12 @@ and >> or >> .B MREMAP_FIXED >> was specified without also specifying >> -.BR MREMAP_MAYMOVE . >> +.BR MREMAP_MAYMOVE ; >> +or \fIold_size\fP was zero and \fIold_address\fP does not refer to a >> +private anonymous mapping; > > Shouldn't this be the other way around? "or old_size was zero and > old_address refers to a private anonymous mapping"? Thanks Jann, Yes that is wrong. In addition, the description of this functionality in the section before this is also incorrect. I will fix both in a new version of the patch. -- Mike Kravetz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
