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From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/5] mm: introduce mmap3 for safely defining new mmap
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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 09:52:16 -0700
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On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 9:47 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov
<kirill-oKw7cIdHH8eLwutG50LtGA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 09:35:11AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 4:15 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov
>> <kirill-oKw7cIdHH8eLwutG50LtGA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 12:44:22AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>> >> diff --git a/include/linux/mman.h b/include/linux/mman.h
>> >> index c8367041fafd..0e1de42c836f 100644
>> >> --- a/include/linux/mman.h
>> >> +++ b/include/linux/mman.h
>> >> @@ -7,6 +7,40 @@
>> >>  #include <linux/atomic.h>
>> >>  #include <uapi/linux/mman.h>
>> >>
>> >> +#ifndef MAP_32BIT
>> >> +#define MAP_32BIT 0
>> >> +#endif
>> >> +#ifndef MAP_HUGE_2MB
>> >> +#define MAP_HUGE_2MB 0
>> >> +#endif
>> >> +#ifndef MAP_HUGE_1GB
>> >> +#define MAP_HUGE_1GB 0
>> >> +#endif
>> >> +
>> >> +/*
>> >> + * The historical set of flags that all mmap implementations implicitly
>> >> + * support when file_operations.mmap_supported_mask is zero.
>> >> + */
>> >> +#define LEGACY_MAP_SUPPORTED_MASK (MAP_SHARED \
>> >> +             | MAP_PRIVATE \
>> >> +             | MAP_FIXED \
>> >> +             | MAP_ANONYMOUS \
>> >> +             | MAP_UNINITIALIZED \
>> >> +             | MAP_GROWSDOWN \
>> >> +             | MAP_DENYWRITE \
>> >> +             | MAP_EXECUTABLE \
>> >> +             | MAP_LOCKED \
>> >> +             | MAP_NORESERVE \
>> >> +             | MAP_POPULATE \
>> >> +             | MAP_NONBLOCK \
>> >> +             | MAP_STACK \
>> >> +             | MAP_HUGETLB \
>> >> +             | MAP_32BIT \
>> >> +             | MAP_HUGE_2MB \
>> >> +             | MAP_HUGE_1GB)
>> >> +
>> >> +#define      MAP_SUPPORTED_MASK (LEGACY_MAP_SUPPORTED_MASK)
>> >> +
>> >>  extern int sysctl_overcommit_memory;
>> >>  extern int sysctl_overcommit_ratio;
>> >>  extern unsigned long sysctl_overcommit_kbytes;
>> >
>> > Since we looking into mmap(2) ABI, maybe we should consider re-defining
>> > MAP_DENYWRITE and MAP_EXECUTABLE as 0 in hope that we would be able to
>> > re-use these bits in the future? These flags are ignored now anyway.
>>
>> Yes, we can make these -EOPNOTSUPP in the new syscall.
>
> You cannot detect them, if we would redefine them as 0. :)

Yes, we can, there will now be missing bits in
LEGACY_MAP_SUPPORTED_MASK that will fail those bit values until we
re-define them. Everything else is a an exercise for libc about what
it wants to do when it sees those values.