On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 11:42:29AM +0200, Oleksandr Natalenko wrote: > * to mark all the eligible VMAs as mergeable, use: > > # echo merge > /proc/<pid>/madvise > > * to unmerge all the VMAs, use: > > # echo unmerge > /proc/<pid>/madvise Please make a real system call (or abuse prctl(2) passing target's pid). Your example automerge daemon could just call it and not bother with /proc.