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authorAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2024-05-29 00:19:16 +0200
committerAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2024-05-31 01:40:56 +0200
commite68371f7325b1817194e826dd71f2c162afa422b (patch)
tree070ea7c68de27e11566f3da4bc2775c88acef01c
parent57cea436b5d51016541f6a766ba8902eb1010b36 (diff)
downloadman-pages-e68371f7325b1817194e826dd71f2c162afa422b.tar.gz
PR_SET_MM.2const, PR_SET_MM_BRK.2const: Split PR_SET_MM_BRK from PR_SET_MM(2const)
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--man/man2const/PR_SET_MM.2const22
-rw-r--r--man/man2const/PR_SET_MM_BRK.2const57
2 files changed, 60 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/man/man2const/PR_SET_MM.2const b/man/man2const/PR_SET_MM.2const
index 297066d1d4..dca14999e6 100644
--- a/man/man2const/PR_SET_MM.2const
+++ b/man/man2const/PR_SET_MM.2const
@@ -45,14 +45,8 @@ is one of the options below.
.B PR_SET_MM_START_STACK
.TQ
.B PR_SET_MM_START_BRK
-.TP
+.TQ
.B PR_SET_MM_BRK
-Set the current
-.BR brk (2)
-value.
-The requirements for the address are the same as for the
-.B PR_SET_MM_START_BRK
-option.
.P
The following options are available since Linux 3.5.
.\" commit fe8c7f5cbf91124987106faa3bdf0c8b955c4cf7
@@ -188,17 +182,6 @@ is greater than
.B TASK_SIZE
(the limit on the size of the user address space for this architecture).
.TP
-.B EINVAL
-.I op
-is
-.BR PR_SET_MM_BRK ,
-and
-.I arg3
-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.
-.TP
.B EPERM
The caller does not have the
.B CAP_SYS_RESOURCE
@@ -221,4 +204,5 @@ option enabled.
.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_BRK (2const)
+.BR PR_SET_MM_START_BRK (2const),
+.BR PR_SET_MM_BRK (2const)
diff --git a/man/man2const/PR_SET_MM_BRK.2const b/man/man2const/PR_SET_MM_BRK.2const
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8c357c4a45
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/man2const/PR_SET_MM_BRK.2const
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+.\" 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_BRK 2const (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
+.SH NAME
+PR_SET_MM_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_BRK, unsigned long " addr ", 0L, 0L);"
+.fi
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+Set the current
+.BR brk (2)
+value.
+.P
+The requirements for the address are the same as for the
+.B PR_SET_MM_START_BRK
+option.
+.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),
+.BR PR_SET_MM_START_BRK (2const)