On 10/13/2016 08:16 PM, 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. I've reverted these changes. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
