From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
To: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>,
Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] process_madvise.2: Rename parameter, and use array syntax
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 13:23:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240225122250.441157-4-alx@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240225122250.441157-2-alx@kernel.org>
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Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
---
man2/process_madvise.2 | 14 +++++++-------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man2/process_madvise.2 b/man2/process_madvise.2
index ed8739663..2d91924ca 100644
--- a/man2/process_madvise.2
+++ b/man2/process_madvise.2
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ .SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <sys/mman.h>
.P
-.BI "ssize_t process_madvise(int " pidfd ", const struct iovec *" iovec ,
-.BI " size_t " vlen ", int " advice \
+.BI "ssize_t process_madvise(int " pidfd ", const struct iovec " iovec [. n ],
+.BI " size_t " n ", int " advice \
", unsigned int " flags );
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ .SH DESCRIPTION
It provides the advice for the address ranges described by
.I iovec
and
-.IR vlen .
+.IR n .
The goal of such advice is to improve system or application performance.
.P
The
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ .SH DESCRIPTION
structures, described in
.BR iovec (3type).
.P
-.I vlen
+.I n
specifies the number of elements in the array of
.I iovec
structures.
@@ -80,12 +80,12 @@ .SH DESCRIPTION
specified as 0.
.P
The
-.I vlen
+.I n
and
.I iovec
arguments are checked before applying any advice.
If
-.I vlen
+.I n
is too big, or
.I iovec
is invalid,
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ .SH ERRORS
value.
.TP
.B EINVAL
-.I vlen
+.I n
is too large.
.TP
.B ENOMEM
--
2.43.0
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-25 12:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-25 12:23 [PATCH 1/2] process_madvise.2: Document the glibc wrapper Alejandro Colomar
2024-02-25 12:23 ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]
2024-02-27 22:16 ` Guillem Jover
2024-02-27 23:14 ` Alejandro Colomar
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