linux-kernel - [patch] madvise.2: Add MADV

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Message-ID: <20170914130040.6faabb18@cuia.usersys.redhat.com>
Date:   Thu, 14 Sep 2017 13:00:40 -0400
From:   Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:     mtk.manpages@...il.com
Cc:     linux-man@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org, nilal@...hat.com,
        Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>,
        Colm MacCártaigh <colm@...costs.net>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
Subject: [patch] madvise.2: Add MADV_WIPEONFORK documentation

Add MADV_WIPEONFORK and MADV_KEEPONFORK documentation to
madvise.2.  The new functionality was recently merged by
Linus, and should be in the 4.14 kernel.

While documenting what EINVAL means for MADV_WIPEONFORK,
I realized that MADV_FREE has the same thing going on,
so I documented EINVAL for both in the ERRORS section.

This patch documents the following kernel commit:

commit d2cd9ede6e193dd7d88b6d27399e96229a551b19
Author: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Date:   Wed Sep 6 16:25:15 2017 -0700

    mm,fork: introduce MADV_WIPEONFORK

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>

index dfb31b63dba3..4f987ddfae79 100644
--- a/man2/madvise.2
+++ b/man2/madvise.2
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@
 .\" 2010-06-19, Andi Kleen, Add documentation of MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE.
 .\" 2011-09-18, Doug Goldstein <cardoe@...doe.com>
 .\"     Document MADV_HUGEPAGE and MADV_NOHUGEPAGE
+.\" 2017-09-14, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
+.\"     Document MADV_WIPEONFORK and MADV_KEEPONFORK
 .\"
 .TH MADVISE 2 2017-07-13 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
@@ -405,6 +407,22 @@ can be applied only to private anonymous pages (see
 .BR mmap (2)).
 On a swapless system, freeing pages in a given range happens instantly,
 regardless of memory pressure.
+.TP
+.BR MADV_WIPEONFORK " (since Linux 4.14)"
+Present the child process with zero-filled memory in this range after a
+.BR fork (2).
+This is useful for per-process data in forking servers that should be
+re-initialized in the child process after a fork, for example PRNG seeds,
+cryptographic data, etc.
+.IP
+The
+.B MADV_WIPEONFORK
+operation can only be applied to private anonymous pages (see
+.BR mmap (2)).
+.TP
+.BR MADV_KEEPONFORK " (since Linux 4.14)"
+Undo the effect of an earlier
+.BR MADV_WIPEONFORK .
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 On success,
 .BR madvise ()
@@ -457,6 +475,18 @@ or
 but the kernel was not configured with
 .BR CONFIG_KSM .
 .TP
+.B EINVAL
+.I advice
+is
+.BR MADV_FREE
+or
+.BR MADV_WIPEONFORK
+but the specified address range includes file, Huge TLB,
+.BR MAP_SHARED ,
+or
+.BR VM_PFNMAP
+ranges.
+.TP
 .B EIO
 (for
 .BR MADV_WILLNEED )