On Wed 06-12-17 08:33:37, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:

On 2017-12-06 05:50, Michael Ellerman wrote:

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Michal Hocko [off-list ref] writes:

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On Wed 29-11-17 14:25:36, Kees Cook wrote:
It is safe in a sense it doesn't perform any address space dangerous
operations. mmap is _inherently_ about the address space so the context
should be kind of clear.

So now you have to define what "dangerous" means.

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MAP_FIXED_UNIQUE
MAP_FIXED_ONCE
MAP_FIXED_FRESH

Well, I can open a poll for the best name, but none of those you are
proposing sound much better to me. Yeah, naming sucks...

I also don't like the _SAFE name - MAP_FIXED in itself isn't unsafe [1],
but I do agree that having a way to avoid clobbering (parts of) an
existing mapping is quite useful. Since we're bikeshedding names, how
about MAP_FIXED_EXCL, in analogy with the O_ flag.

I really give up on the name discussion. I will take whatever the
majority comes up with. I just do not want this (useful) funtionality
get bikeched to death.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs