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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] mm: introduce MAP_FIXED_SAFE
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 09:54:30 +0100
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On 12/06/2017 09:06 AM, John Hubbard wrote:
> On 12/05/2017 11:35 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> On 12/06/2017 08:33 AM, John Hubbard wrote:
>>> In that case, maybe:
>>>
>>>       MAP_EXACT
>>>
>>> ? ...because that's the characteristic behavior.
>>
>> Is that true?  mmap still silently rounding up the length to the page size, I assume, so even that name is misleading.
> 
> Hi Florian,
> 
> Not as far as I can tell, it's not doing that.
> 
> For both MAP_FIXED, and this new flag, the documented (and actual)
> behavior is *not* to do any such rounding. Instead, the requested
> input address is required to be page-aligned itself, and mmap()
> should be honoring the exact addr.

I meant the length, not the address.

Florian