linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 2/2] man/man2/mremap.2: describe previous undocumented shrink behaviour

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Message-ID: <f9b165f911957d5263586f3bb67b8c5b05b6bd52.1753711160.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 15:04:51 +0100
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-man@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>, Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        "Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@...e.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] man/man2/mremap.2: describe previous undocumented shrink behaviour

There is pre-existing logic that appears to be undocumented for an mremap()
shrink operation, where it turns out that the usual 'input range must span
a single mapping' requirement no longer applies.

In fact, it turns out that the input range specified by [old_address,
old_size) may span any number of mappings, as long old_address resides at
or within a mapping and [old_address, new_size) spans only a single
mapping.

Explicitly document this.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
---
 man/man2/mremap.2 | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man/man2/mremap.2 b/man/man2/mremap.2
index cb3412591..c1a9e7397 100644
--- a/man/man2/mremap.2
+++ b/man/man2/mremap.2
@@ -43,7 +43,22 @@ may span multiple mappings
 which do not have to be
 adjacent to one another.
 .P
-If the operation is not a simple move
+Equally, if the operation performs a shrink,
+that is if
+.I old_size
+is greater than
+.IR new_size ,
+then
+.I old_size
+may also span multiple mappings
+which do not have to be
+adjacent to one another.
+However in this case,
+.I new_size
+must span only a single mapping.
+.P
+If the operation is neither a simple move
+nor a shrink,
 then
 .I old_size
 must span only a single mapping.
-- 
2.50.1