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

From Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v6 3/5] mm: introduce mmap3 for safely defining new mmap flags
Date 2017-08-25 15:10 +0200
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On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 10:36:02AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> I'll let Andy and Kirill restate their concerns, but one of the
> arguments that swayed me is that any new mmap flag with this hack must
> be documented to only work with MAP_SHARED and that MAP_PRIVATE is
> silently ignored. I agree with the mess and delays it causes for other
> archs and libc, but at the same time this is for new applications and
> libraries that know to look for the new flag, so they need to do the
> extra work to check for the new syscall.

True.  That is for the original hack, but I spent some more time
looking at the mmap code, and there is one thing I noticed:

include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h:

#define MAP_SHARED      0x01            /* Share changes */
#define MAP_PRIVATE     0x02            /* Changes are private */
#define MAP_TYPE        0x0f            /* Mask for type of mapping */

mm/mmap.c:

	if (file) {
		struct inode *inode = file_inode(file);

		switch (flags & MAP_TYPE) {
                case MAP_SHARED:
			...
		case MAP_PRIVATE:
			...
		default:
			return -EINVAL;
		}

and very similar for the anonymous and nommu cases.

So if we pick e.g. 0x4 as the valid bit we don't even need to overload
the MAP_SHARED and MAP_PRIVATE meaning.

> 
> However, if the fcntl lease approach works for the DMA cases then we
> only have the one mmap flag to add for now, so maybe the weird
> MAP_{SHARED|PRIVATE} semantics are tolerable.
---end quoted text---

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[PATCH v6 0/5] MAP_DIRECT and block-map-atomic files Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-08-24 02:00 +0200
  [PATCH v6 4/5] fs,  xfs: introduce MAP_DIRECT for creating block-map-atomic file ranges Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-08-24 02:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v6 4/5] fs, xfs: introduce MAP_DIRECT for creating         block-map-atomic file ranges Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-08-24 18:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v6 4/5] fs, xfs: introduce MAP_DIRECT for creating         block-map-atomic file ranges Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-08-24 18:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v6 4/5] fs, xfs: introduce MAP_DIRECT for creating  block-map-atomic file ranges Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-08-24 22:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v6 4/5] fs, xfs: introduce MAP_DIRECT for creating  block-map-atomic file ranges Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-08-24 18:40 +0200
  [PATCH v6 5/5] fs, fcntl: add F_MAP_DIRECT Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-08-24 02:00 +0200
  [PATCH v6 3/5] mm: introduce mmap3 for safely defining new mmap  flags Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-08-24 02:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v6 3/5] mm: introduce mmap3 for safely defining new mmap  flags Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2017-08-24 15:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v6 3/5] mm: introduce mmap3 for safely defining new mmap  flags Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-08-24 19:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v6 3/5] mm: introduce mmap3 for safely defining new mmap flags Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-08-24 19:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v6 3/5] mm: introduce mmap3 for safely defining new mmap  flags Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-08-25 15:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v6 3/5] mm: introduce mmap3 for safely defining new mmap  flags "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2017-08-25 18:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v6 3/5] mm: introduce mmap3 for safely defining new mmap  flags Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-08-25 18:10 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v6 3/5] mm: introduce mmap3 for safely defining new mmap  flags "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2017-08-25 18:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v6 3/5] mm: introduce mmap3 for safely defining new mmap  flags Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> - 2017-08-25 18:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v6 3/5] mm: introduce mmap3 for safely defining new mmap  flags "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2017-08-25 19:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v6 3/5] mm: introduce mmap3 for safely defining new mmap flags Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-08-25 22:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v6 3/5] mm: introduce mmap3 for safely defining new mmap  flags Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> - 2017-08-26 09:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v6 3/5] mm: introduce mmap3 for safely defining new mmap flags Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-08-26 17:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v6 3/5] mm: introduce mmap3 for safely defining new mmap  flags Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> - 2017-08-26 22:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v6 3/5] mm: introduce mmap3 for safely defining new mmap flags Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-08-27 00:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v6 3/5] mm: introduce mmap3 for safely defining new mmap  flags "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2017-08-27 02:00 +0200
  [PATCH v6 2/5] fs, xfs: introduce S_IOMAP_SEALED Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-08-24 02:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v6 2/5] fs, xfs: introduce S_IOMAP_SEALED Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-08-24 18:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v6 2/5] fs, xfs: introduce S_IOMAP_SEALED Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-08-25 08:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v6 2/5] fs, xfs: introduce S_IOMAP_SEALED Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-08-25 21:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] MAP_DIRECT and block-map-atomic files Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-08-24 18:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] MAP_DIRECT and block-map-atomic files Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-08-24 18:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v6 1/5] vfs: add flags parameter to ->mmap() in 'struct  file_operations' Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-08-24 19:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v6 1/5] vfs: add flags parameter to ->mmap() in 'struct file_operations' Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-08-24 19:50 +0200

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