prctl: add flags to enable KSM at the process level
PATCH 1/1 prctl: add flags to enable KSM at the process level
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 <[email protected]>
--- man2/prctl.2 | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
man2/prctl.2 +20 -0
@@ -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)"
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