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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-10-13 16:29:08 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-10-13 16:29:08 -0700 |
| commit | 06d97c58f65cc747573a3fa8569cca0169e5096e (patch) | |
| tree | f8379d122eb8e49cface843dc594baef3ceae48e /mm/madvise.c | |
| parent | e837d9134be8018d15421546c1defd35a1bb3d06 (diff) | |
| parent | 61b639723be5a9fc4812d5d85cb769589afa5a38 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
"18 fixes"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>:
mm, swap: use page-cluster as max window of VMA based swap readahead
mm: page_vma_mapped: ensure pmd is loaded with READ_ONCE outside of lock
kmemleak: clear stale pointers from task stacks
fs/binfmt_misc.c: node could be NULL when evicting inode
fs/mpage.c: fix mpage_writepage() for pages with buffers
linux/kernel.h: add/correct kernel-doc notation
tty: fall back to N_NULL if switching to N_TTY fails during hangup
Revert "vmalloc: back off when the current task is killed"
mm/cma.c: take __GFP_NOWARN into account in cma_alloc()
scripts/kallsyms.c: ignore symbol type 'n'
userfaultfd: selftest: exercise -EEXIST only in background transfer
mm: only display online cpus of the numa node
mm: remove unnecessary WARN_ONCE in page_vma_mapped_walk().
mm/mempolicy: fix NUMA_INTERLEAVE_HIT counter
include/linux/of.h: provide of_n_{addr,size}_cells wrappers for !CONFIG_OF
mm/madvise.c: add description for MADV_WIPEONFORK and MADV_KEEPONFORK
lib/Kconfig.debug: kernel hacking menu: runtime testing: keep tests together
mm/migrate: fix indexing bug (off by one) and avoid out of bound access
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/madvise.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/madvise.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c index 25bade36e9ca..fd70d6aabc3e 100644 --- a/mm/madvise.c +++ b/mm/madvise.c @@ -757,6 +757,9 @@ madvise_behavior_valid(int behavior) * MADV_DONTFORK - omit this area from child's address space when forking: * typically, to avoid COWing pages pinned by get_user_pages(). * MADV_DOFORK - cancel MADV_DONTFORK: no longer omit this area when forking. + * MADV_WIPEONFORK - present the child process with zero-filled memory in this + * range after a fork. + * MADV_KEEPONFORK - undo the effect of MADV_WIPEONFORK * MADV_HWPOISON - trigger memory error handler as if the given memory range * were corrupted by unrecoverable hardware memory failure. * MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE - try to soft-offline the given range of memory. @@ -777,7 +780,9 @@ madvise_behavior_valid(int behavior) * zero - success * -EINVAL - start + len < 0, start is not page-aligned, * "behavior" is not a valid value, or application - * is attempting to release locked or shared pages. + * is attempting to release locked or shared pages, + * or the specified address range includes file, Huge TLB, + * MAP_SHARED or VMPFNMAP range. * -ENOMEM - addresses in the specified range are not currently * mapped, or are outside the AS of the process. * -EIO - an I/O error occurred while paging in data. |
