Re: Rewording language in mbind(2) to "threads" not "processes"

Hi Christoph,

Did you have any thoughts on my follow-on question below?

Cheers,

Michael



On 10/14/2016 12:09 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:

Hi Christoph,

On 13 October 2016 at 20:16, Christoph Lameter [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Thu, 13 Oct 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:

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@@ -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.

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@@ -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.

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 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

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