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Michael Kerrisk 90c85e6189 times.2: ffix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-20 10:56:53 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 5d1efadb0b veth.4: SHow command used to move a veth device into another network namespace
Reported-by: Tomas Pospisek <tpo@sourcepole.ch>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-20 10:22:59 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 334299e22f veth.4: ffix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-20 10:22:59 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 1eef07f09a namespaces.7: Add a reference to new veth(4) page
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-20 10:22:58 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 6f34a82c42 clone.2: Add a reference to new veth(4) page
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-20 10:22:58 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk ee24ae59cf veth.4: Elaborate on use of ethtool(8) to find veth peer
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-20 10:22:58 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk eab9cf18f8 veth.4: Minor fixes
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-20 10:22:58 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 9354c155a0 veth.4: Integrate content from Eric Biederman
Cowritten-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-20 10:22:58 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 394eea352b veth.4: SEE ALSO: add ip-link(8)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-20 10:22:58 +02:00
Tomáš Pospíšek 1459db4abd veth.4: New page document veth virtual ethernet devices
Based on a page from Tomáš Pospíšek, with some clean-ups by mtk.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-20 10:22:58 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk b858495171 pthread_spin_init.3: srcfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-20 10:20:49 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 5017fc28ec pthread_spin_init.3: Minor rewording
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-20 10:20:49 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 28c15b63d6 pthread_spin_init.3: Add more caveats on use of spin locks
Cowritten-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-20 10:20:49 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 34d46b816e pthread_spin_init.3: Strengthen note about when spin locks should (not) be used
Reported-by: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-20 10:20:49 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 0e905edca8 pthread_spin_init.3: Operations on copies of *lock yield undefined behavior
Reported-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-20 10:20:48 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk eb93621d10 pthread_spin_init.3: tfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-20 10:20:48 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk af79528ece pthread_spin_lock.3: tfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-20 10:20:48 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 4eea22f5ae pthread_spin_lock.3: wfix
Reported-by: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-20 10:20:48 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 07fa47a568 pthread_spin_lock.3: Fixes suggested by Carlos O'Donell
Reported-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-20 10:20:48 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk f3861c72a9 pthread_spin_lock.3: Refer reader to important details in NOTES in pthread_spin_init(3)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-20 10:20:48 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 8cbd1d9e4d pthread_spin_init.3: Warn about deadlock with spin locks
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-20 10:20:48 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 2dea72418d pthread_spin_init.3: Spin locks should be used with real-time scheduling policies
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-20 10:20:48 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 41041696d3 pthread_yield.3: srcfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-20 10:20:48 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 534af41391 pthreads.7: SEE ALSO: add pthread_spin_init(3) and pthread_spin_lock(3)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-20 10:20:48 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 77e0fbc201 pthread_spin_trylock.3, pthread_spin_unlock.3: New links to new pthread_spin_lock3 page
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-20 10:20:48 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk ce42a8cf5f pthread_spin_lock.3: New page describing functions that lock and unlock spin locks
Add a page descrbing pthread_spin_lock(3), pthread_spin_unlock(3),
and pthread_spin_trylock(3).

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-20 10:20:48 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 14bffcef9c pthread_spin_destroy.3: New link to new pthread_spin_init.3 page
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-20 10:20:48 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 7f5f8925ce pthread_spin_init.3: New page describing pthread_spin_init(3) and pthread_spin_destroy(3)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-20 10:20:48 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 133ca6caab stat.2: Use lstat() instead of stat()
It's more logical to use lstat() in the example code,
since one can then experiment with sybolic links, and
also the S_IFLNK case can also occur.

Reported-by: Richard Knutsson <richard.knutsson@abelko.se>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-18 20:04:26 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 9dc4485584 ioctl_userfaultfd.2: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-18 10:40:01 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 364270d01f ioctl_userfaultfd.2: Rework version information for feature bits
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-18 10:39:34 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk e81833beb2 userfaultfd.2: Minor fixes to Prakash Sangappa's patch
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-18 10:37:29 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 1df2779d72 ioctl_userfaultfd.2: Minor fixes to Prakash Sangappa's patch
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-18 10:33:18 +02:00
Prakash Sangappa 2c371032cf ioctl_userfaultfd.2, userfaultfd.2: Add description for UFFD_FEATURE_SIGBUS
Userfaultfd feature UFFD_FEATURE_SIGBUS was merged recently and
should be available in the Linux 4.14 release. This patch is for
the man page changes documenting this API.

Documents the following commit:

commit 2d6d6f5a09a96cc1fec7ed992b825e05f64cb50e
Author: Prakash Sangappa <prakash.sangappa@oracle.com>
Date: Wed Sep 6 16:23:39 2017 -0700

     mm: userfaultfd: add feature to request for a signal delivery

Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Prakash Sangappa <prakash.sangappa@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-18 10:25:12 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk cddd55a004 pthread_yield.3: tfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-18 09:58:54 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 94dd730b53 namespaces.7: EXAMPLE: refer also to example in clone(2)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-18 09:33:50 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk d304c13dac posix_fallocate.3: ffix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-18 09:26:12 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 4f542fe3f5 netlink.7: ffix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-18 09:26:12 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 8d4b88468c man-pages.7: Note that "x86-64" is generally preferred over "x86_64"
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-18 09:26:12 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk b5b0d21ef5 proc.5: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-18 09:26:12 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 9ea5bc667b clone.2, getcpu.2, shmget.2, syscall.2, dladdr.3, proc.5, vdso.7: Consistently use "x86-64", not "x86_64"
When referring to the architecture, consistently use "x86-64",
not "x86_64". Hitherto, there was a mixture of usages, with
"x86-64" predominant.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-18 09:26:12 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk b219e68cfa clone.2: Combine redundant paragraphs describing child_stack==NULL
Combine two redundant paragraphs (one of which I recently
added) describing child_stack==NULL for the raw system call.
Also, make sure this text is in a more obvious place than
its previous location.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-18 08:53:43 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 1c173eb337 clone.2: Rework the discussion of the historical CLONE_PID for clarity
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-18 08:45:32 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 2551f80148 clone.2: ffix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-18 08:45:32 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk e5f3df4833 clone.2: Remove a redundant paragraph
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-18 08:45:32 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 7495cbc7b3 clone.2: Eliminate some redundant phrasing in discussion of "fn()"
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-18 08:45:32 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 4ba17a6deb clone.2: Minor wording fixes
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-18 08:45:32 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 1c6ebc4b4c clone.2: Warn that the clone() wrapper modifies child_stack in the parent
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-17 22:24:49 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 1874193ebf clone.2: Add NOTES heading
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-17 22:17:26 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk d35f5c3402 clone.2: Note that child_stack can be NULL when using the raw system call
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-10-17 15:52:54 +02:00