Thread (32 messages) 32 messages, 7 authors, 2017-08-26

Re: [PATCH v6 3/5] mm: introduce mmap3 for safely defining new mmap flags

From: Kirill A. Shutemov <hidden>
Date: 2017-08-25 16:16:07
Also in: linux-api, linux-fsdevel, linux-mm, lkml, nvdimm

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 09:02:36AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 06:58:03PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
quoted
Not all archs are ready for this:

arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/mman.h:#define MAP_TYPE    0x03            /* Mask for type of mapping */
arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/mman.h:#define MAP_FIXED   0x04            /* Interpret addr exactly */
I'd be happy to say that we should not care about parisc for
persistent memory.  We'll just have to find a way to exclude
parisc without making life too ugly.
I don't think creapling mmap() interface for one arch is the right way to
go. I think the interface should be universal.

I may imagine MAP_DIRECT can be useful not only for persistent memory.
For tmpfs instead of mlock()?

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov
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