man/man2/mremap.2: Describe previously undocumented shrink behaviour
There is pre-existing logic that appears to be undocumented for an
mremap() shrink operation, where it turns out that the usual 'input
range must span a single mapping' requirement no longer applies.
In fact, it turns out that the input range specified by [old_address,
old_address + old_size) may span any number of mappings.
If shrinking in-place (that is, neither the MREMAP_FIXED nor
MREMAP_DONTUNMAP flags are specified), then the new span may also span
any number of VMAs - [old_address, old_address + new_size).
If shrinking and moving, the range specified by [old_address,
old_address + new_size) must span a single VMA.
There must be at least one VMA contained within the [old_address,
old_address + old_size) range, and old_address must be within the range
of a VMA.
Explicitly document this.
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Message-ID: <
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1754924278.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>