From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com>,
libc-alpha@sourceware.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [Question] New mmap64 syscall?
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 21:54:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170103205437.GA22548@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14981df2-b120-17c3-a5a8-5cbbd2008c4f@redhat.com>
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> >Hi Florian,
> >
> >I frankly don't understand what you mean, All syscalls you mentioned
> >doesn't take off_t or other 64-bit arguments. 'VM changes' - virtual
> >memory? If so, I don't see any changes in VM with this approach, just
> >correct handling of big offsets.
>
> What I was trying to suggest is a completely different interface which is
> not subject to register size constraints and which has been requested before
> (a mechanism for batching mm updates).
While I agree that batching might be good idea, I believe mmap64()
makes sense, too. Yes, I guess libc could do the translation, but
indirection will cost some performance, and will be problematic for
stuff such as strace.
...actually, with strace and batched interface, it will be impossible
to see what is going on because of races. So I'm not sure if I like
the batched interface at all...
Best regards,
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-03 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-06 18:54 [Question] New mmap64 syscall? Yury Norov
2016-12-06 21:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-12-07 10:34 ` Yury Norov
[not found] ` <0F280FED-870A-42B5-ABC4-1976ACA32462@theobroma-systems.com>
[not found] ` <20161207123944.GA11799@yury-N73SV>
2016-12-07 16:32 ` Catalin Marinas
2016-12-07 16:43 ` Dr. Philipp Tomsich
2016-12-07 21:30 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-12-10 9:10 ` Pavel Machek
2016-12-10 9:21 ` Pavel Machek
2016-12-11 12:56 ` Yury Norov
2016-12-11 12:56 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm: move argument checkers of mmap_pgoff() to separated routine Yury Norov
2016-12-11 12:56 ` [PATCH 2/3] sys_mmap64() Yury Norov
2016-12-11 14:48 ` kbuild test robot
2016-12-11 14:56 ` kbuild test robot
2016-12-11 12:56 ` [PATCH 3/3] mm: make pagoff_t type 64-bit Yury Norov
2016-12-11 13:31 ` kbuild test robot
2016-12-11 13:41 ` kbuild test robot
2016-12-11 14:59 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-12-16 10:55 ` Yury Norov
2016-12-16 11:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-12-18 9:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-12-07 13:23 ` [Question] New mmap64 syscall? Florian Weimer
2016-12-07 15:48 ` Yury Norov
2016-12-08 15:47 ` Florian Weimer
2017-01-03 20:54 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2017-01-12 16:13 ` Florian Weimer
2017-01-12 21:51 ` Pavel Machek
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