Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Oct 2016 13:16:21 -0500 (CDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: Rewording language in mbind(2) to "threads" not "processes" |
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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.
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