Re: mmap and stacks

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>> I can think of 2 things you could do if you need fixed addresses:
>> - write a page-fault handler in a driver and do the mmap through that
>> driver. With that handler you can control access to the mmap'ed
>> memory.
>>
> I can't (and also don't want to) modify the kernel :)
Not even with a harmless driver? :)

> Why do you say I would get to use sbrk? Actually, are brk and sbrk used for
> anything these days?
>
Not anymore. Forgot about that.

>>
>> Why do you need fixed addresses though?
>
> I'm implementing a distributed memory with a shared address space. Each node
> has part of the address space to play with, so it has to allocate stacks and
> heaps in that region. But even if I didn't need a fixed mapping, how would
> that help me? MAP_GROWSDOWN doesn't seem to make the mapping auto-expendable
> anyway...
>
Hmm, out of ideas. I'd implement it myself.

Thanks,
Dragos

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