From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qt0-f198.google.com (mail-qt0-f198.google.com [209.85.216.198]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30E7E6B0069 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2016 06:10:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-qt0-f198.google.com with SMTP id z54so75397279qtz.0 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2016 03:10:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-qk0-x22f.google.com (mail-qk0-x22f.google.com. [2607:f8b0:400d:c09::22f]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m82si9200132qki.283.2016.10.14.03.10.05 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 14 Oct 2016 03:10:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-qk0-x22f.google.com with SMTP id z190so138938195qkc.2 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2016 03:10:05 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com In-Reply-To: References: From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 12:09:44 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Rewording language in mbind(2) to "threads" not "processes" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Piotr Kwapulinski , mhocko@kernel.org, mgorman@techsingularity.net, Peter Zijlstra , Rik van Riel , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , lkml , linux-man , Brice Goglin Hi Christoph, On 13 October 2016 at 20:16, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Thu, 13 Oct 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > >> @@ -100,7 +100,10 @@ If, however, the shared memory region was created with the >> .B SHM_HUGETLB >> flag, >> the huge pages will be allocated according to the policy specified >> -only if the page allocation is caused by the process that calls >> +only if the page allocation is caused by the thread that calls >> +.\" >> +.\" ??? Is it correct to change "process" to "thread" in the preceding line? > > No leave it as process. Pages get one map refcount per page table > that references them (meaning a process). More than one map refcount means > that multiple processes have mapped the page. > >> @@ -300,7 +303,10 @@ is specified in >> .IR flags , >> then the kernel will attempt to move all the existing pages >> in the memory range so that they follow the policy. >> -Pages that are shared with other processes will not be moved. >> +Pages that are shared with other threads will not be moved. >> +.\" >> +.\" ??? Is it correct to change "processes" to "threads" in the preceding line? >> +.\" > > Leave it. Same as before. > >> If >> then the kernel will attempt to move all existing pages in the memory range >> -regardless of whether other processes use the pages. >> -The calling process must be privileged >> +regardless of whether other threads use the pages. >> +.\" >> +.\" ??? Is it correct to change "processes" to "threads" in the preceding line? >> +.\" > > Leave as process. Thanks. So, are all the other cases where I changed "process" to "thread" okay then? Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org