mm: Define MAP_SYNC and VM_SYNC flags

Define new MAP_SYNC flag and corresponding VMA VM_SYNC flag. As the
MAP_SYNC flag is not part of LEGACY_MAP_MASK, currently it will be
refused by all MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE map attempts and silently ignored for
everything else.

Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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Jan Kara
2017-11-01 16:36:41 +01:00
committed by Dan Williams
parent f5b7b74876
commit b6fb293f24
4 changed files with 9 additions and 2 deletions

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#define MAP_NONBLOCK 0x10000 /* do not block on IO */
#define MAP_STACK 0x20000 /* give out an address that is best suited for process/thread stacks */
#define MAP_HUGETLB 0x40000 /* create a huge page mapping */
#define MAP_SYNC 0x80000 /* perform synchronous page faults for the mapping */
/* Bits [26:31] are reserved, see mman-common.h for MAP_HUGETLB usage */