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Bug #3785

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Implement MAP_32BIT flag to mmap()

Added by Theo Schlossnagle about 10 years ago. Updated over 9 years ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Theo Schlossnagle
Category:
kernel
Start date:
2013-05-25
Due date:
% Done:

100%

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Difficulty:
Bite-size
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Description

The kernel internals already support the idea of mmap restricting itself to below the 4GB boundary. It is a private kernel flag and can't be passed in from user space.

Linux supports this and it is useful for systems that do pointer packing where allocations need to be limited.

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mmap-test-3785.c (664 Bytes) mmap-test-3785.c Test case. Theo Schlossnagle, 2013-05-25 01:53 PM
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 #1

Updated by Theo Schlossnagle about 10 years ago

Created a test case.

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Updated by Yuri Pankov over 9 years ago

  • Category set to kernel
  • Status changed from New to Resolved
  • Assignee set to Theo Schlossnagle
  • % Done changed from 90 to 100
  • Tags deleted (needs-triage)

Resolved in:

commit 1b3b16f35bee1ffc210591d82bca6adf247954b0
Author: Theo Schlossnagle <jesus@omniti.com>
Date:   Fri Aug 23 11:13:02 2013 -0400

    3785 Implement MAP_32BIT flag to mmap()
    Reviewed by: Albert Lee <trisk@nexenta.com>
    Reviewed by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@nexenta.com>
    Reviewed by: Robert Mustacchi <rm@joyent.com>
    Approved by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@nexenta.com>
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