Index: head/lib/libc/sys/brk.2 =================================================================== --- head/lib/libc/sys/brk.2 +++ head/lib/libc/sys/brk.2 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)brk.2 8.4 (Berkeley) 5/1/95 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd December 15, 2015 +.Dd May 24, 2018 .Dt BRK 2 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ .Fn sbrk functions are legacy interfaces from before the advent of modern virtual memory management. +They are deprecated and not present on the arm64 or riscv architectures. +The +.Xr mmap 2 +interface should be used to allocate pages instead. .Ef .Pp The @@ -152,6 +156,11 @@ .Fn brk function appeared in .At v7 . +.Fx 11.0 +introduced the arm64 and riscv architectures which do not support +.Fn brk +or +.Fn sbrk . .Sh BUGS Mixing .Fn brk @@ -168,3 +177,9 @@ from a failure caused by exceeding the maximum size of the data segment without consulting .Xr getrlimit 2 . +.Pp +.Fn sbrk +is sometimes used to monitor heap use by calling with an argument of 0. +The result is unlikely to reflect actual utilization in combination with an +.Xr mmap 2 +based malloc.