linux-kernel - [PATCH v1] mm/madvise: update comment on sys

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jan 2016 10:24:25 +0900
From:	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>,
	Chen Gong <gong.chen@...ux.intel.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v1] mm/madvise: update comment on sys_madvise()

Some new MADV_* advices are not documented in sys_madvise() comment.
So let's update it.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
---
 mm/madvise.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git v4.4-mmotm-2016-01-20-16-10/mm/madvise.c v4.4-mmotm-2016-01-20-16-10_patched/mm/madvise.c
index 6a77114..c897b15 100644
--- v4.4-mmotm-2016-01-20-16-10/mm/madvise.c
+++ v4.4-mmotm-2016-01-20-16-10_patched/mm/madvise.c
@@ -639,14 +639,26 @@ madvise_behavior_valid(int behavior)
  *		some pages ahead.
  *  MADV_DONTNEED - the application is finished with the given range,
  *		so the kernel can free resources associated with it.
+ *  MADV_FREE - the application marks pages in the given range as lasyfree,
+ *		where actual purges are postponed until memory pressure happens.
  *  MADV_REMOVE - the application wants to free up the given range of
  *		pages and associated backing store.
  *  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_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.
  *  MADV_MERGEABLE - the application recommends that KSM try to merge pages in
  *		this area with pages of identical content from other such areas.
  *  MADV_UNMERGEABLE- cancel MADV_MERGEABLE: no longer merge pages with others.
+ *  MADV_HUGEPAGE - the application wants to allocate transparent hugepages to
+ *		load the content of the given memory range.
+ *  MADV_NOHUGEPAGE - cancel MADV_HUGEPAGE: no longer allocate transparent
+ *		hugepages.
+ *  MADV_DONTDUMP - the application wants to prevent pages in the given range
+ *		from being included in its core dump.
+ *  MADV_DODUMP - cancel MADV_DONTDUMP: no longer exclude from core dump.
  *
  * return values:
  *  zero    - success
-- 
2.7.0