Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] dax, ext4: Synchronous page faults

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On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 07:44:14PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> How about MAP_SYNC == (MAP_SHARED|MAP_PRIVATE)? On older kernels that
> should get -EINVAL, and on new kernels it means SYNC+SHARED.

Cute trick, but I'd hate to waster it just for our little flag.

How about:

#define __MAP_VALIDATE		MAP_SHARED|MAP_PRIVATE
#define MAP_SYNC		0x??? | __MAP_VALIDATE

so that we can reuse that trick for any new flag?
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