linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/5] userfaultfd.2: describe memory types that can be used from 4.11

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Date:   Tue, 25 Apr 2017 19:29:04 +0300
From:   Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
Cc:     Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-man@...r.kernel.org, Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] userfaultfd.2: describe memory types that can be used from 4.11

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 man2/userfaultfd.2 | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man2/userfaultfd.2 b/man2/userfaultfd.2
index 1603c20..c89484f 100644
--- a/man2/userfaultfd.2
+++ b/man2/userfaultfd.2
@@ -130,8 +130,12 @@ Details of the various
 operations can be found in
 .BR ioctl_userfaultfd (2).
 
-Currently, userfaultfd can be used only with anonymous private memory
-mappings.
+Up to Linux 4.11,
+userfaultfd can be used only with anonymous private memory mappings.
+
+Since Linux 4.11,
+userfaultfd can be also used with hugetlbfs and shared memory mappings.
+
 .\"
 .SS Reading from the userfaultfd structure
 Each
-- 
1.9.1