Re: [PATCH] proc.5: wfix

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On 10/25/20 12:18 AM, Jing Peng wrote:
> In the section for /proc/[pid]/smaps, the description of field
> ProtectionKey occurs twice: both before and after the description of
> VmFlags.
> 
> Changes made by this patch:
> 1) Only the first occurrence is kept because its order matches the
> output of /proc/[pid]/smaps.
> 2) The kernel version that CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS was
> introduced is only mentioned in the second occurrence. Now it's moved
> to the first one.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jing Peng <pj.hades@xxxxxxxxx>

Thank you, Jing Peng. Patch applied.

Cheers,

Michael

> ---
>  man5/proc.5 | 9 +--------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
> index ed309380b..ac58c789a 100644
> --- a/man5/proc.5
> +++ b/man5/proc.5
> @@ -1987,7 +1987,7 @@ contains the memory protection key (see
>  associated with the virtual memory area.
>  This entry is present only if the kernel was built with the
>  .B CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS
> -configuration option.
> +configuration option (since Linux 4.6).
>  .IP
>  The "VmFlags" line (available since Linux 3.8)
>  represents the kernel flags associated with the virtual memory area,
> @@ -2026,13 +2026,6 @@ encoded using the following two-letter codes:
>      um  - userfaultfd missing pages tracking (since Linux 4.3)
>      uw  - userfaultfd wprotect pages tracking (since Linux 4.3)
>  .IP
> -"ProtectionKey" field contains the memory protection key (see
> -.BR pkeys (7))
> -associated with the virtual memory area.
> -Present only if the kernel was built with the
> -.B CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS
> -configuration option. (since Linux 4.6)
> -.IP
>  The
>  .IR /proc/[pid]/smaps
>  file is present only if the
> --
> 2.29.1
> 


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/



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