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[v1] prctl: add flags to enable KSM at the process level

Message ID 20230227220206.436662-1-shr@devkernel.io (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series [v1] prctl: add flags to enable KSM at the process level | expand

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Stefan Roesch Feb. 27, 2023, 10:02 p.m. UTC 
This adds two new flags to the prctl documentation: PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE
and PR_GET_MEMORY_MERGE. The flags allow to enable KSM (kernel samepage
merging) at the process level and query is state.

The "mm: process/cgroup ksm support" patch series has been posted to the
mm mailing list and it enables this feature.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io>
---
 man2/prctl.2 | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)


base-commit: 53a7e5dfc3554a2e8dbdfdc4504e99652e1d6382
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diff --git a/man2/prctl.2 b/man2/prctl.2
index 2212331af0e4..d10334484bf7 100644
--- a/man2/prctl.2
+++ b/man2/prctl.2
@@ -591,6 +591,26 @@  the current per-process machine check kill policy.
 All unused
 .BR prctl ()
 arguments must be zero.
+.\" prctl PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE
+.TP
+.BR PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE " (since Linux 6.4)"
+Enable the KSM (kernel samepage merging) feature for this process. If
+.I arg2
+is nonzero, KSM gets enabled for this process. Child processes will inherit the
+setting.
+.IP
+The calling process must have the
+.B CAP_SYS_RESOURCE
+capability.
+.\" prctl PR_GET_MEMORY_MERGE
+.TP
+.BR PR_GET_MEMORY_MERGE " (since Linux 6.4)"
+Return (as the function result) if KSM (kernel samepage merging) has been
+enabled for this process. All unused prctl() arguments must be NULL.
+.IP
+The calling process must have the
+.B CAP_SYS_RESOURCE
+capability.
 .\" prctl PR_SET_MM
 .TP
 .BR PR_SET_MM " (since Linux 3.3)"