Thread (15 messages) 15 messages, 2 authors, 2017-08-16

Re: [PATCH v5 3/5] mm: introduce mmap3 for safely defining new mmap flags

From: Kirill A. Shutemov <hidden>
Date: 2017-08-16 11:15:41
Also in: linux-fsdevel, linux-mm, linux-xfs, lkml, nvdimm

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 12:44:22AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
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.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov
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