public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>,
	Kristina Martsenko <kristina.martsenko@arm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>,
	YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>,
	Micah Morton <mortonm@chromium.org>,
	Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	Yury Norov <norov.maillist@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] prctl.2: Document the new PR_GET_TASK_SIZE option
Date: Thu,  2 May 2019 16:52:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1556830342-32307-3-git-send-email-jsavitz@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1556830342-32307-1-git-send-email-jsavitz@redhat.com>

Add a short explanation of the new PR_GET_TASK_SIZE option for the benefit
of future generations.

Signed-off-by: Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com>
---
 man2/prctl.2 | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man2/prctl.2 b/man2/prctl.2
index 06d8e13c7..35a6a3919 100644
--- a/man2/prctl.2
+++ b/man2/prctl.2
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
 .\" 2013-01-10 Kees Cook, document PR_SET_PTRACER
 .\" 2012-02-04 Michael Kerrisk, document PR_{SET,GET}_CHILD_SUBREAPER
 .\" 2014-11-10 Dave Hansen, document PR_MPX_{EN,DIS}ABLE_MANAGEMENT
+.\" 2019-05-02 Joel Savitz, document PR_GET_TASK_SIZE
 .\"
 .\"
 .TH PRCTL 2 2019-03-06 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
@@ -1375,6 +1376,14 @@ system call on Tru64).
 for information on versions and architectures)
 Return unaligned access control bits, in the location pointed to by
 .IR "(unsigned int\ *) arg2" .
+.TP
+.B PR_GET_TASK_SIZE
+Copy the value of TASK_SIZE to the userspace address in
+.IR "(unsigned long\ *) arg2" .
+Return
+.B EFAULT
+if this operation fails.
+
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 On success,
 .BR PR_GET_DUMPABLE ,
-- 
2.18.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-02 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-02 20:52 [PATCH v2 0/2] sys/prctl: expose TASK_SIZE value to userspace Joel Savitz
2019-05-02 20:52 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] kernel/sys: add PR_GET_TASK_SIZE option to prctl(2) Joel Savitz
2019-05-02 21:09   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2019-05-02 21:46     ` Joel Savitz
2019-05-03  8:31       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2019-05-03 11:31         ` David Laight
2019-05-02 21:24   ` Rafael Aquini
2019-05-02 21:49   ` Yury Norov
2019-05-02 20:52 ` Joel Savitz [this message]
2019-05-02 22:23   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] prctl.2: Document the new PR_GET_TASK_SIZE option Yury Norov
2019-05-03  1:49     ` Rafael Aquini
2019-05-02 21:01 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] sys/prctl: expose TASK_SIZE value to userspace Waiman Long
2019-05-02 21:10   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2019-05-02 21:22     ` Joel Savitz
2019-05-02 21:34       ` Yury Norov
2019-05-02 21:26 ` Rafael Aquini

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=1556830342-32307-3-git-send-email-jsavitz@redhat.com \
    --to=jsavitz@redhat.com \
    --cc=adobriyan@gmail.com \
    --cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=aquini@redhat.com \
    --cc=gorcunov@gmail.com \
    --cc=gustavo@embeddedor.com \
    --cc=jannh@google.com \
    --cc=keescook@chromium.org \
    --cc=kristina.martsenko@arm.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=longman@redhat.com \
    --cc=mchehab+samsung@kernel.org \
    --cc=mhiramat@kernel.org \
    --cc=mingo@kernel.org \
    --cc=mortonm@chromium.org \
    --cc=mtk.manpages@gmail.com \
    --cc=norov.maillist@gmail.com \
    --cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
    --cc=yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com \
    --cc=yuehaibing@huawei.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox