On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 10:17:18PM -0700, Axel Rasmussen wrote:

 static void shmem_allocate_area(void **alloc_area)
 {
-	unsigned long offset =
-		alloc_area == (void **)&area_src ? 0 : nr_pages * page_size;
+	void *area_alias = NULL;
+	bool is_src = alloc_area == (void **)&area_src;
+	unsigned long offset = is_src ? 0 : nr_pages * page_size;
 
 	*alloc_area = mmap(NULL, nr_pages * page_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
 			   MAP_SHARED, shm_fd, offset);
 	if (*alloc_area == MAP_FAILED)
 		err("mmap of memfd failed");
+
+	area_alias = mmap(NULL, nr_pages * page_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			  MAP_SHARED, shm_fd, offset);
+	if (area_alias == MAP_FAILED)
+		err("mmap of memfd alias failed");
+
+	if (is_src)
+		area_src_alias = area_alias;
+	else
+		area_dst_alias = area_alias;
+}

It would be nice if shmem_allocate_area() could merge with
hugetlb_allocate_area() somehow, but not that urgent.

Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>

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Peter Xu