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, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
