Re: [PATCH 1/5] userfaultfd.2: describe memory types that can be used from 4.11

From	"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 1/5] userfaultfd.2: describe memory types that can be used from 4.11
Date	2017-04-26 09:00 +0200
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On 04/25/2017 06:29 PM, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Thanks, Mike. Applied.

Cheers,

Michael



> ---
>  man2/userfaultfd.2 | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man2/userfaultfd.2 b/man2/userfaultfd.2
> index 1603c20..c89484f 100644
> --- a/man2/userfaultfd.2
> +++ b/man2/userfaultfd.2
> @@ -130,8 +130,12 @@ Details of the various
>  operations can be found in
>  .BR ioctl_userfaultfd (2).
>  
> -Currently, userfaultfd can be used only with anonymous private memory
> -mappings.
> +Up to Linux 4.11,
> +userfaultfd can be used only with anonymous private memory mappings.
> +
> +Since Linux 4.11,
> +userfaultfd can be also used with hugetlbfs and shared memory mappings.
> +
>  .\"
>  .SS Reading from the userfaultfd structure
>  Each
> 


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/

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[PATCH 0/5] {ioctl_}userfaultfd.2: initial updates for 4.11 Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-04-25 18:30 +0200
  [PATCH 4/5] userfaultfd.2: add Linux container migration use-case to NOTES Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-04-25 18:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 4/5] userfaultfd.2: add Linux container migration use-case  to NOTES "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2017-04-26 09:20 +0200
  [PATCH 2/5] ioctl_userfaultfd.2: describe memory types that can be used from 4.11 Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-04-25 18:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/5] ioctl_userfaultfd.2: describe memory types that can  be used from 4.11 "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2017-04-26 09:00 +0200
  [PATCH 1/5] userfaultfd.2: describe memory types that can be used from 4.11 Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-04-25 18:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/5] userfaultfd.2: describe memory types that can be used  from 4.11 "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2017-04-26 09:00 +0200
  [PATCH 3/5] ioctl_userfaultfd.2: update UFFDIO_API description Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-04-25 18:40 +0200
  [PATCH 5/5] usefaultfd.2: add brief description of "non-cooperative" mode Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-04-25 18:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 5/5] usefaultfd.2: add brief description of  "non-cooperative" mode "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2017-04-26 09:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/5] {ioctl_}userfaultfd.2: initial updates for 4.11 "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2017-04-26 09:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/5] {ioctl_}userfaultfd.2: initial updates for 4.11 Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-04-26 09:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 0/5] {ioctl_}userfaultfd.2: initial updates for 4.11 "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2017-04-26 10:50 +0200

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