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Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 15:36:16 +0200
From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
To: Michal Hocko <miso@...p22.suse.cz>
CC: mtk.manpages@...il.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mmap2: clarify MAP_POPULATE
On 05/13/2015 04:38 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
>
> David Rientjes has noticed that MAP_POPULATE wording might promise much
> more than the kernel actually provides and intend to provide. The
> primary usage of the flag is to pre-fault the range. There is no
> guarantee that no major faults will happen later on. The pages might
> have been reclaimed by the time the process tries to access them.
Yes, thanks, Michal -- that's a good point to make clearer.
Applied, with Reviewed-by: from Eric added.
Cheers,
Michael
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
> ---
> man2/mmap.2 | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/man2/mmap.2 b/man2/mmap.2
> index 1486be2e96b3..dcf306f2f730 100644
> --- a/man2/mmap.2
> +++ b/man2/mmap.2
> @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ private writable mappings.
> .BR MAP_POPULATE " (since Linux 2.5.46)"
> Populate (prefault) page tables for a mapping.
> For a file mapping, this causes read-ahead on the file.
> -Later accesses to the mapping will not be blocked by page faults.
> +This will help to reduce blocking on page faults later.
> .BR MAP_POPULATE
> is supported for private mappings only since Linux 2.6.23.
> .TP
>
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Michael Kerrisk
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