man-pages-4.16

[Anton Maisak]

​https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/man-pages-4.16.tar.xz

Released: 2018-04-30, Munich

Newly documented interfaces in existing pages

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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]