From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 21so1253985eyc.44 for ; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:55:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:57:03 +0300 From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] shmat: introduce flag SHM_MAP_HINT Message-ID: <20081007065701.GA5012@localhost.localdomain> References: <20081006132651.GG3180@one.firstfloor.org> <1223303879-5555-1-git-send-email-kirill@shutemov.name> <20081006192923.GJ3180@one.firstfloor.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0F1p//8PRICkK4MW" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081006192923.GJ3180@one.firstfloor.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Ingo Molnar , Arjan van de Ven , Andrew Morton List-ID: --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:29:23PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 05:37:59PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > It allows interpret attach address as a hint, not as exact address. >=20 > First you should also do a patch for the manpage and send to=20 > the manpage maintainer. I'll do it if the patch is ok. > > #define SHM_LOCK 11 > > diff --git a/ipc/shm.c b/ipc/shm.c > > index e77ec69..19462bb 100644 > > --- a/ipc/shm.c > > +++ b/ipc/shm.c > > @@ -819,7 +819,7 @@ long do_shmat(int shmid, char __user *shmaddr, int = shmflg, ulong *raddr) > > if (shmid < 0) > > goto out; > > else if ((addr =3D (ulong)shmaddr)) { > > - if (addr & (SHMLBA-1)) { > > + if (!(shmflg & SHM_MAP_HINT) && (addr & (SHMLBA-1))) { > > if (shmflg & SHM_RND) > > addr &=3D ~(SHMLBA-1); /* round down */ > > else > > @@ -828,7 +828,7 @@ long do_shmat(int shmid, char __user *shmaddr, int = shmflg, ulong *raddr) > > #endif > > goto out; > > } > > - flags =3D MAP_SHARED | MAP_FIXED; > > + flags =3D (shmflg & SHM_MAP_HINT ? 0 : MAP_FIXED) | MAP_SHARED; >=20 >=20 > IMHO you need at least make the >=20 > if (find_vma_intersection(current->mm, addr, addr + size)) > goto invalid; >=20 > test above conditional too. Since it's a hint, we shouldn't call find_vma_intersection() at all. I'll send fixed patch soon. --=20 Regards, Kirill A. Shutemov + Belarus, Minsk + ALT Linux Team, http://www.altlinux.com/ --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjrCD0ACgkQbWYnhzC5v6pSfwCdHXb4WrjRsItJl+QbsbhIGNiR DZ0An1pDpowyCY1PXewWbVfTLVfKQod1 =QrNi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW-- -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org