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mmap.2: Minor tweaks to Jan Kara's patch 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2018-04-12 14:49:52 +02:00
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@ -127,19 +127,21 @@ to the underlying file requires the use of
.BR msync (2).)
.TP
.BR MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE " (since Linux 4.15)"
The same as
This flag provides the same behavior as
.B MAP_SHARED
except that
.B MAP_SHARED
mappings ignore unknown flags in
.IR flags .
In contrast when creating mapping of
.B MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE
mapping type, the kernel verifies all passed flags are known and fails the
mapping with
By contrast, when creating a mapping using
.B MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE ,
the kernel verifies all passed flags are known and fails the
mapping with the error
.BR EOPNOTSUPP
otherwise.
This mapping type is also required to be able to use some mapping flags.
for unknown flags.
This mapping type is also required to be able to use some mapping flags
(e.g.,
.BR MAP_SYNC ).
.TP
.B MAP_PRIVATE
Create a private copy-on-write mapping.
@ -155,6 +157,8 @@ Both
and
.B MAP_PRIVATE
are described in POSIX.1-2001 and POSIX.1-2008.
.B MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE
is a Linux extension.
.PP
In addition, zero or more of the following values can be ORed in
.IR flags :
@ -432,19 +436,20 @@ support can later be transparently implemented for glibc.
.\" context switch optimization?"
.TP
.BR MAP_SYNC " (since Linux 4.15)"
This flags is available only with
This flag is available only with the
.B MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE
mapping type.
Mappings of
mapping type;
mappings of type
.B MAP_SHARED
type will silently ignore this flag.
will silently ignore this flag.
This flag is supported only for files supporting DAX
(direct mapping of persistent memory).
For other files, creating mapping with this flag results in
For other files, creating a mapping with this flag results in an
.B EOPNOTSUPP
error.
.IP
Shared file mappings with this flag provide the guarantee that while
some memory is writeably mapped in the address space of the process,
some memory is writably mapped in the address space of the process,
it will be visible in the same file at the same offset even after
the system crashes or is rebooted.
This allows users of such mappings to make data modifications