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authorAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2024-05-29 00:13:07 +0200
committerAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2024-05-31 01:40:56 +0200
commit57cea436b5d51016541f6a766ba8902eb1010b36 (patch)
treed2fc88501495eacbc153a0d5bbb191c29591e937
parentd88dc33e4bba757625536250d66243f39c463166 (diff)
downloadman-pages-57cea436b5d51016541f6a766ba8902eb1010b36.tar.gz
PR_SET_MM.2const, PR_SET_MM_START_BRK.2const: Split PR_SET_MM_START_BRK from PR_SET_MM(2const)
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--man/man2const/PR_SET_MM.2const17
-rw-r--r--man/man2const/PR_SET_MM_START_BRK.2const61
2 files changed, 64 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/man/man2const/PR_SET_MM.2const b/man/man2const/PR_SET_MM.2const
index 333560989d..297066d1d4 100644
--- a/man/man2const/PR_SET_MM.2const
+++ b/man/man2const/PR_SET_MM.2const
@@ -43,18 +43,8 @@ is one of the options below.
.B PR_SET_MM_END_DATA
.TQ
.B PR_SET_MM_START_STACK
-.TP
+.TQ
.B PR_SET_MM_START_BRK
-Set the address above which the program heap can be expanded with
-.BR brk (2)
-call.
-The address must be greater than the ending address of
-the current program data segment.
-In addition, the combined size of the resulting heap and
-the size of the data segment can't exceed the
-.B RLIMIT_DATA
-resource limit (see
-.BR setrlimit (2)).
.TP
.B PR_SET_MM_BRK
Set the current
@@ -201,8 +191,6 @@ is greater than
.B EINVAL
.I op
is
-.B PR_SET_MM_START_BRK
-or
.BR PR_SET_MM_BRK ,
and
.I arg3
@@ -232,4 +220,5 @@ option enabled.
.BR PR_SET_MM_END_CODE (2const),
.BR PR_SET_MM_START_DATA (2const),
.BR PR_SET_MM_END_DATA (2const),
-.BR PR_SET_MM_START_STACK (2const)
+.BR PR_SET_MM_START_STACK (2const),
+.BR PR_SET_MM_START_BRK (2const)
diff --git a/man/man2const/PR_SET_MM_START_BRK.2const b/man/man2const/PR_SET_MM_START_BRK.2const
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bd12f445e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/man2const/PR_SET_MM_START_BRK.2const
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+.\" Copyright 2012, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
+.\" Copyright 2012, 2013, 2015, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
+.\" Copyright 2024, Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
+.\"
+.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft
+.\"
+.TH PR_SET_MM_START_BRK 2const (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
+.SH NAME
+PR_SET_MM_START_BRK
+\-
+modify kernel memory map descriptor fields
+.SH LIBRARY
+Standard C library
+.RI ( libc ", " \-lc )
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.nf
+.B #include <sys/prctl.h>
+.P
+.BI "int prctl(PR_SET_MM, PR_SET_MM_START_BRK, unsigned long " addr ", 0L, 0L);"
+.fi
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+Set the address above which the program heap can be expanded with
+.BR brk (2)
+call.
+.P
+The address must be greater than the ending address of
+the current program data segment.
+In addition,
+the combined size of the resulting heap and the data segment
+can't exceed the
+.B RLIMIT_DATA
+resource limit (see
+.BR setrlimit (2)).
+.SH RETURN VALUE
+On success,
+0 is returned.
+On error, \-1 is returned, and
+.I errno
+is set to indicate the error.
+.SH ERRORS
+.TP
+.B EINVAL
+.I addr
+is greater than
+.B TASK_SIZE
+(the limit on the size of the user address space for this architecture).
+.TP
+.B EINVAL
+.I addr
+is less than or equal to the end of the data segment
+or specifies a value that would cause the
+.B RLIMIT_DATA
+resource limit to be exceeded.
+.SH STANDARDS
+Linux.
+.SH HISTORY
+Linux 3.3.
+.\" commit 028ee4be34a09a6d48bdf30ab991ae933a7bc036
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR prctl (2),
+.BR PR_SET_MM (2const)