linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] madvise.2: update EINVAL return info

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Date:   Thu, 17 Mar 2022 22:02:59 +0100
From:   "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@...il.com>
To:     Charan Teja Reddy <quic_charante@...cinc.com>
Cc:     linux-man@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        minchan@...nel.org, nadav.amit@...il.com, mtk.manpages@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] madvise.2: update EINVAL return info

Hellp Charan,

On 3/16/22 15:52, Charan Teja Reddy wrote:
> MADV_COLD and MADV_PAGEOUT advises on an address range which includes
> locked, Huge TLB pages or VM_PFNMAP pages can return EINVAL. Update the
> man pages accordingly.
> 
> Reported-by: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Reddy <quic_charante@...cinc.com>

Patch applied.

Thanks,

Alex

> ---
>  man2/madvise.2 | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/man2/madvise.2 b/man2/madvise.2
> index f1f384c..ab98a87 100644
> --- a/man2/madvise.2
> +++ b/man2/madvise.2
> @@ -505,6 +505,16 @@ is not a valid.
>  .B EINVAL
>  .I advice
>  is
> +.BR MADV_COLD
> +or
> +.BR MADV_PAGEOUT
> +and the specified address range includes locked, Huge TLB pages, or
> +.B VM_PFNMAP
> +pages.
> +.TP
> +.B EINVAL
> +.I advice
> +is
>  .B MADV_DONTNEED
>  or
>  .BR MADV_REMOVE

-- 
Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/