Opened 7 years ago
Last modified 7 years ago
#4266 closed enhancement
man-pages-4.16 — at Version 1
| Reported by: | Anton Maisak | Owned by: | lfs-book |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 8.3 |
| Component: | Book | Version: | SVN |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
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Description (last modified by )
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/man-pages-4.16.tar.xz
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
membarrier.2
Mathieu Desnoyers [Michael Kerrisk]
Document new membarrier commands introduced in Linux 4.16
Document the following membarrier commands introduced in Linux 4.16:
MEMBARRIER_CMD_GLOBAL_EXPEDITED
(the old enum label MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED is now an alias to preserve header backward compatibility)
MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_GLOBAL_EXPEDITED MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE
mmap.2
Jan Kara [Ross Zwisler, Michael Kerrisk]
Add description of MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE and MAP_SYNC
Michal Hocko [John Hubbard, Michael Kerrisk, Jann Horn]
Document new MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE flag
4.17+ kernels offer a new MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE flag which allows the caller to atomically probe for a given address range.
readv.2 io_submit.2
Jürg Billeter
Document RWF_APPEND added in Linux 4.16
capabilities.7
Michael Kerrisk
Describe file capability versioning
Michael Kerrisk [Serge E. Hallyn]
Document namespaced-file capabilities [There's still more work to be done on this new text]
