man/set_mempolicy.2,mbind.2: forbid static or relative flags for local NUMA mode

Started by Piotr Kwapulinski on Sep 27, 2016

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Add documentation for the following patch:
[PATCH v2 0/1] mm/mempolicy.c: forbid static or relative flags
 for local NUMA mode

Signed-off-by: Piotr Kwapulinski <redacted>
---
 man2/mbind.2         | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 man2/set_mempolicy.2 | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 70 insertions(+)
diff --git a/man2/mbind.2 b/man2/mbind.2
index 3ea24f6..8c50948 100644
--- a/man2/mbind.2
+++ b/man2/mbind.2
@@ -375,6 +375,41 @@ argument specified both
 .B MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES
 and
 .BR MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES .
+Or, the
+.I mode
+argument specifies
+.B MPOL_PREFERRED
+and
+.B MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES
+flag and
+.I nodemask
+is empty. Or, the
+.I mode
+argument specifies
+.B MPOL_PREFERRED
+and
+.B MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES
+flag and
+.I nodemask
+is empty. Or, the
+.I mode
+is
+.B MPOL_LOCAL
+and
+.I nodemask
+is empty. Or, the
+.I mode
+argument specifies
+.B MPOL_LOCAL
+and
+.B MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES
+flag. Or, the
+.I mode
+argument specifies
+.B MPOL_LOCAL
+and
+.B MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES
+flag.
 .TP
 .B EIO
 .B MPOL_MF_STRICT
diff --git a/man2/set_mempolicy.2 b/man2/set_mempolicy.2
index 1f02037..9204941 100644
--- a/man2/set_mempolicy.2
+++ b/man2/set_mempolicy.2
@@ -269,6 +269,41 @@ argument specified both
 .B MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES
 and
 .BR MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES .
+Or, the
+.I mode
+argument specifies
+.B MPOL_PREFERRED
+and
+.B MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES
+flag and
+.I nodemask
+is empty. Or, the
+.I mode
+argument specifies
+.B MPOL_PREFERRED
+and
+.B MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES
+flag and
+.I nodemask
+is empty. Or, the
+.I mode
+is
+.B MPOL_LOCAL
+and
+.I nodemask
+is empty. Or, the
+.I mode
+argument specifies
+.B MPOL_LOCAL
+and
+.B MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES
+flag. Or, the
+.I mode
+argument specifies
+.B MPOL_LOCAL
+and
+.B MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES
+flag.
 .TP
 .B ENOMEM
 Insufficient kernel memory was available.
-- 
2.10.0
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