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diff --git a/Documentation/mm/unevictable-lru.rst b/Documentation/mm/unevictable-lru.rst index d5ac8511eb67..67f1338440a5 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/unevictable-lru.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/unevictable-lru.rst @@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ can request that a region of memory be mlocked by supplying the MAP_LOCKED flag to the mmap() call. There is one important and subtle difference here, though. mmap() + mlock() will fail if the range cannot be faulted in (e.g. because mm_populate fails) and returns with ENOMEM while mmap(MAP_LOCKED) will not fail. -The mmaped area will still have properties of the locked area - pages will not +The mmapped area will still have properties of the locked area - pages will not get swapped out - but major page faults to fault memory in might still happen. Furthermore, any mmap() call or brk() call that expands the heap by a task |