Re: linux-next: Tree for Nov 7

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Hi Michal,

Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Mon 13-11-17 10:20:06, Michal Hocko wrote:
>> [Cc arm and ppc maintainers]
>
> Hmm, it turned out to be a problem on other architectures as well.
> CCing more maintainers. For your reference, we are talking about
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171023082608.6167-1-mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx
> which has broken architectures which do apply aligning on the mmap
> address hint without MAP_FIXED applied. See below my proposed way
> around this issue because I belive that the above patch is quite
> valuable on its own to be dropped for all archs.

I don't really like your solution sorry :)  The fact that you've had to
patch seven arches seems like a red flag.

I think this is a generic problem with MAP_FIXED, which I've heard
userspace folks complain about in the past.

Currently MAP_FIXED does two things:
  1. makes addr not a hint but the required address
  2. blasts any existing mapping

You want 1) but not 2).

So the right solution IMHO would be to add a new mmap flag to request
that behaviour, ie. a fixed address but iff there is nothing already
mapped there.

I don't know the mm code well enough to know if that's hard for some
reason, but it *seems* like it should be doable.

cheers
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