Re: [PATCH 26/26] x86/mm: allow to have userspace mappings above 47-bits

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Subject	Re: [PATCH 26/26] x86/mm: allow to have userspace mappings above 47-bits
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"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> writes:

> On x86, 5-level paging enables 56-bit userspace virtual address space.
> Not all user space is ready to handle wide addresses. It's known that
> at least some JIT compilers use higher bits in pointers to encode their
> information. It collides with valid pointers with 5-level paging and
> leads to crashes.
>
> To mitigate this, we are not going to allocate virtual address space
> above 47-bit by default.
>
> But userspace can ask for allocation from full address space by
> specifying hint address (with or without MAP_FIXED) above 47-bits.
>
> If hint address set above 47-bit, but MAP_FIXED is not specified, we try
> to look for unmapped area by specified address. If it's already
> occupied, we look for unmapped area in *full* address space, rather than
> from 47-bit window.
>
> This approach helps to easily make application's memory allocator aware
> about large address space without manually tracking allocated virtual
> address space.
>

So if I have done a successful mmap which returned > 128TB what should a
following mmap(0,...) return ? Should that now search the *full* address
space or below 128TB ?

-aneesh

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Re: [PATCH 26/26] x86/mm: allow to have userspace mappings above 47-bits "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-03-17 21:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 26/26] x86/mm: allow to have userspace mappings above  47-bits "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2017-03-18 18:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 26/26] x86/mm: allow to have userspace mappings above 47-bits "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-03-19 09:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 26/26] x86/mm: allow to have userspace mappings above 47-bits "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-03-19 14:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 26/26] x86/mm: allow to have userspace mappings above  47-bits "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2017-03-24 10:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 26/26] x86/mm: allow to have userspace mappings above 47-bits Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2017-03-20 10:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 26/26] x86/mm: allow to have userspace mappings above 47-bits hpa@zytor.com - 2017-03-20 19:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 26/26] x86/mm: allow to have userspace mappings above  47-bits Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> - 2017-03-20 20:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 26/26] x86/mm: allow to have userspace mappings above  47-bits "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2017-03-24 10:10 +0100

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