On 8/26/20 11:49 AM, Yu, Yu-cheng wrote:

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I would expect things like Go and various JITs to call it directly.

If we wanted to be fancy and add a potentially more widely useful
syscall, how about:

mmap_special(void *addr, size_t length, int prot, int flags, int type);

Where type is something like MMAP_SPECIAL_X86_SHSTK.  Fundamentally,
this is really just mmap() except that we want to map something a bit
magical, and we don't want to require opening a device node to do it.

One benefit of MMAP_SPECIAL_* is there are more free bits than MAP_*.
Does ARM have similar needs for memory mapping, Dave?

No idea.

But, mmap_special() is *basically* mmap2() with extra-big flags space.
I suspect it will grow some more uses on top of shadow stacks.  It could
have, for instance, been used to allocate MPX bounds tables.