linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mlock.2: mlock2.2: Add entry to for new mlock2 syscall

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Message-ID: <20150831092300.GE29723@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date:	Mon, 31 Aug 2015 11:23:01 +0200
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:	Eric B Munson <emunson@...mai.com>
Cc:	mtk.manpages@...il.com, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-man@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mlock.2: mlock2.2: Add entry to for new mlock2 syscall

On Fri 28-08-15 14:43:11, Eric B Munson wrote:
> Update the mlock.2 man page with information on mlock2() and the new
> mlockall() flag MCL_ONFAULT.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@...mai.com>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>

I am not familiar with the format much so I am just looking at the text
and that looks reasonable to me. Just one note below:

> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
> Cc: linux-man@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> ---
>  man2/mlock.2  | 109 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  man2/mlock2.2 |   1 +
>  2 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 man2/mlock2.2
> 
> diff --git a/man2/mlock.2 b/man2/mlock.2
> index 79c544d..8f51926 100644
> --- a/man2/mlock.2
> +++ b/man2/mlock.2
[...]
> +The
> +.I flags
> +argument can be either 0 or the following constant:
> +.TP 1.2i
> +.B MLOCK_ONFAULT
> +Lock pages that are currently resident and mark the entire range to have
> +pages locked when they are faulted in.

@faulted in@...ulated by the page fault@.

would be probably better.

[...]
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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