On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:Ok, this looks ok. Except I would remove the VM_MAYSHARE bit from the test. That whole bit should go, in fact. We used to make it something different: iirc, a read-only SHARED mapping was downgraded to a non-shared mapping, because we wanted to avoid some of the costs we used to have with the VM implementation (actually, I think it was various filesystems that don't like shared mappings because they don't have a per-page writeback). But we left the VM_MAYSHARE bit on, to get /proc/<pid>/mmap things right. Or something like that. I forget the details. But I *think* we don't actually need this any more. But basically, the "right" way to test for shared mappings is historically to just test the VM_MAYSHARE bit - but not *both* bits. Because VM_SHARE may have been artificially cleared. Somebody should double-check my memory. Linus -
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