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| author | Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> | 2022-01-28 12:53:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> | 2022-06-02 15:43:28 -0300 |
| commit | 1002f1af1ca954f6bb8fbda67fccdb7a4b0055cd (patch) | |
| tree | 1b484790fdbedfad90c14cc7abea2277914f4b62 /NEWS | |
| parent | d19ee3473d68ca0e794f3a8b7677a0983ae1342e (diff) | |
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linux: Add process_mrelease
Added in Linux 5.15 (884a7e5964e06ed93c7771c0d7cf19c09a8946f1), the new syscalls allows a caller to free the memory of a dying target process. Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu. Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 5032f5fce5..6a213775e6 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ Major new features: same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified by the pidfd. +* On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a + caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the + memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's + CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller. + Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes |