On Fri, 27 Mar 2015, Eric B Munson wrote: > > munmap(2) of hugetlb memory requires a length that is hugepage aligned, > > otherwise it may fail. Add this to the documentation. > > > > This also cleans up the documentation and separates it into logical > > units: one part refers to MAP_HUGETLB and another part refers to > > requirements for shared memory segments. > > > > Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]> > > --- > > If this is the route we are going to take, this behavoir needs to be > called out prominently in the mmap/munmap man page. >
Yeah, that was my next step, but before we get mtk involved I was trying to get this merged since man2/mmap.2 already has a .I Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt for MAP_HUGETLB so the man page patch can simply reference this addition to the file as justification. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
