Hi Dave, On 5/12/20 6:36 PM, Dave Martin wrote: > A bunch of updates to the prctl(2) man page to fill in the missing > prctls (mostly) up to Linux 5.6 (along with a few other tweaks fixes). > > People not Cc'd on the whole series can find the whole series at > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/ . > > Patches: > > * Patches 1-6 and 8-9 are rather trivial optional tweaks and fixes > that don't make substantive changes. I can live with some of these > being dropped. > > * Patch 7 (removal of the MPX prctls) could use an Ack, but should be > uncontroversial. > > * Patches 10-11 cover recent extensions to the speculation control > prctls. > > * Patch 12 adds one particular case Errors for EINVAL, applicable to > all arch-specific prctls. I've not tried too hard to be 100% > comprehensive with the error conditions, since the list in its > current form looks in need of a major overhaul. > > * Patches 13-14 add the new arm64-specific prctls. > (PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL requires a bit more discussion and will be > posted separately.) Thanks. This is great! > Maintainer notes: > > * I'm *asssuming* that the datestamps in .TH are automatically > updated by maintainer scripts, since maintaining them by hand would > interact very badly with rebase. If needed I can go update them by > hand though. > > * Similarly, in the days of git (and because I see no recent entries) > I'm assuming that in-file changelogs no longer need to be updated. Correct. > Again, I'm happy to do that if needed. (No need.) Except as noted below, patches have been applied: > Dave Martin (14): > prctl.2: tfix clarify that prctl can apply to threads > prctl.2: Add health warning > prctl.2: tfix mis-description of thread ID values in procfs > prctl.2: srcfix add comments for navigation > prctl.2: tfix listing order of prctls > prctl.2: ffix quotation mark tweaks > prctl.2: Document removal of Intel MPX prctls > prctl.2: Work around bogus constant "maxsig" in PR_SET_PDEATHSIG > prctl.2: tfix minor punctuation in SPECULATION_CTRL prctls > prctl.2: Add PR_SPEC_INDIRECT_BRANCH for SPECULATION_CTRL prctls Applied, but not yet pushed. > prctl.2: Add PR_SPEC_DISABLE_NOEXEC for SPECULATION_CTRL prctls Applied, but not yet pushed. > prctl.2: Clarify the unsupported hardware case of EINVAL > prctl.2: Add SVE prctls (arm64) Will had comments. I'm presuming there will be a v2 of this patch. > prctl.2: Add PR_PAC_RESET_KEYS (arm64) Will had comments. I'm presuming there will be a v2 of this patch. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
