madvise(2) may return ENOMEM if the advice acts on a vma that must be split and creating the new vma will result in the process exceeding /proc/sys/vm/max_map_count. Specify this additional possibility. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> --- man2/madvise.2 | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man2/madvise.2 b/man2/madvise.2 --- a/man2/madvise.2 +++ b/man2/madvise.2 @@ -467,7 +467,12 @@ Not enough memory: paging in failed. .TP .B ENOMEM Addresses in the specified range are not currently -mapped, or are outside the address space of the process. +mapped, are outside the address space of the process, or will result in the +number of areas mapped by this process to exceed +.I /proc/sys/vm/max_map_count +(see the Linux kernel source file +.I Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +for more details). .TP .B EPERM .I advice -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html