linux-kernel - [PATCH] man/man2/mremap.2: fix incorrect reference to VM

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Message-ID: <20251121081609.52462-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2025 08:16:09 +0000
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-man@...r.kernel.org, "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
Subject: [PATCH] man/man2/mremap.2: fix incorrect reference to VM_MIXEDMAP

We actually disallow VM_DONTEXPAND and VM_PFNMAP for VM_DONTUNMAP, the
manpage incorrectly references VM_MIXEDMAP. Correct this.

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

diff --git a/man/man2/mremap.2 b/man/man2/mremap.2
index 6a6df8601..cbe960f77 100644
--- a/man/man2/mremap.2
+++ b/man/man2/mremap.2
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ The
 flag can be used only with mappings that are not
 .B VM_DONTEXPAND
 or
-.BR VM_MIXEDMAP .
+.BR VM_PFNMAP .
 Before Linux 5.13, the
 .B MREMAP_DONTUNMAP
 flag could be used only with private anonymous mappings
-- 
2.51.2