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authorAdhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>2022-01-28 12:53:52 +0000
committerAdhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>2022-06-02 15:43:28 -0300
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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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@@ -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