linux-kernel - [PATCH] mmap.2: document new MAP_FIXED

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Date:   Wed, 11 Apr 2018 14:04:52 +0200
From:   mhocko@...nel.org
To:     Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
Cc:     John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        <linux-mm@...ck.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mmap.2: document new MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE flag

From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>

4.17+ kernels offer a new MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE flag which allows the caller to
atomicaly probe for a given address range.

[wording heavily updated by John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>]
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
---
Hi,
Andrew's sent the MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE to Linus for the upcoming merge
window. So here we go with the man page update.

 man2/mmap.2 | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man2/mmap.2 b/man2/mmap.2
index ea64eb8f0dcc..f702f3e4eba2 100644
--- a/man2/mmap.2
+++ b/man2/mmap.2
@@ -261,6 +261,27 @@ Examples include
 and the PAM libraries
 .UR http://www.linux-pam.org
 .UE .
+Newer kernels
+(Linux 4.17 and later) have a
+.B MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE
+option that avoids the corruption problem; if available, MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE
+should be preferred over MAP_FIXED.
+.TP
+.BR MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE " (since Linux 4.17)"
+Similar to MAP_FIXED with respect to the
+.I
+addr
+enforcement, but different in that MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE never clobbers a pre-existing
+mapped range. If the requested range would collide with an existing
+mapping, then this call fails with
+.B EEXIST.
+This flag can therefore be used as a way to atomically (with respect to other
+threads) attempt to map an address range: one thread will succeed; all others
+will report failure. Please note that older kernels which do not recognize this
+flag will typically (upon detecting a collision with a pre-existing mapping)
+fall back to a "non-MAP_FIXED" type of behavior: they will return an address that
+is different than the requested one. Therefore, backward-compatible software
+should check the returned address against the requested address.
 .TP
 .B MAP_GROWSDOWN
 This flag is used for stacks.
@@ -487,6 +508,12 @@ is not a valid file descriptor (and
 .B MAP_ANONYMOUS
 was not set).
 .TP
+.B EEXIST
+range covered by
+.IR addr ,
+.IR length
+is clashing with an existing mapping.
+.TP
 .B EINVAL
 We don't like
 .IR addr ,
-- 
2.16.3