it remaps anon mappings without unmapping the original. chromeos plans
to use it with userfaultfd, see:
linux commit e346b3813067d4b17383f975f197a9aa28a3b077
mm/mremap: add MREMAP_DONTUNMAP to mremap()
These were mainly introduced so android can optimize the memory usage
of unused apps.
MADV_COLD hints that the memory range is currently not needed (unlike
with MADV_FREE the content is not garbage, it needs to be swapped):
linux commit 9c276cc65a58faf98be8e56962745ec99ab87636
mm: introduce MADV_COLD
MADV_PAGEOUT hints that the memory range is not needed for a long time
so it can be reclaimed immediately independently of memory pressure
(unlike with MADV_DONTNEED the content is not garbage):
linux commit 1a4e58cce84ee88129d5d49c064bd2852b481357
mm: introduce MADV_PAGEOUT
mlock2 syscall was added in linux v4.4 and glibc has api for it.
It falls back to mlock in case of flags==0, so that case works
even on older kernels.
MLOCK_ONFAULT is moved under _GNU_SOURCE following glibc.
to map at a fixed address without unmapping underlying mappings
(fails with EEXIST unlike MAP_FIXED), new in linux commits
4ed28639519c7bad5f518e70b3284c6e0763e650 and
a4ff8e8620d3f4f50ac4b41e8067b7d395056843.
for synchronous page faults, new in linux commit
1c9725974074a047f6080eecc62c50a8e840d050 and
b6fb293f2497a9841d94f6b57bd2bb2cd222da43
note that only targets that use asm-generic/mman.h have this new
flag defined, so undef it on other targets (mips*, powerpc*).
*_HUGE_SHIFT, *_HUGE_2MB, *_HUGE_1GB are documented in the man page,
so add all of the *_HUGE_* macros from linux uapi.
if MAP_HUGETLB is set, top bits of the mmap flags encode the page size.
see the linux commit aafd4562dfee81a40ba21b5ea3cf5e06664bc7f6
if SHM_HUGETLB is set, top bits of the shmget flags encode the page size.
see the linux commit 4da243ac1cf6aeb30b7c555d56208982d66d6d33
*_HUGE_16GB is defined unsigned to avoid signed left shift ub.
allows the os to free the marked pages lazily on memory pressure.
expected to increase malloc performance.
new in linux commit 854e9ed09dedf0c19ac8640e91bcc74bc3f9e5c9
currently five targets use the same mman.h constants and the rest
share most constants too, so move them to sys/mman.h before the
bits/mman.h include where the differences can be corrected by
redefinition of the macros.
this fixes two minor bugs: POSIX_MADV_DONTNEED was wrong on most
targets (it should be the same as MADV_DONTNEED), and sh defined
the x86-only MAP_32BIT mmap flag.
they lock faulted pages into memory (useful when a small part of a
large mapped file needs efficient access), new in linux v4.4, commit
b0f205c2a3082dd9081f9a94e50658c5fa906ff1
MLOCK_* is not in the POSIX reserved namespace for sys/mman.h
the definitions are generic for all kernel archs. exposure of these
macros now only occurs on the same feature test as for the function
accepting them, which is believed to be more correct.
the old behavior of exposing nothing except plain ISO C can be
obtained by defining __STRICT_ANSI__ or using a compiler option (such
as -std=c99) that predefines it. the new default featureset is POSIX
with XSI plus _BSD_SOURCE. any explicit feature test macros will
inhibit the default.
installation docs have also been updated to reflect this change.
this is ugly and stupid, but now that the *64 symbol names exist, a
lot of broken GNU software detects them in configure, then either
breaks during build due to missing off64_t definition, or attempts to
compile without function declarations/prototypes. "fixing" it here is
easier than telling everyone to add yet another feature test macro to
their builds.
Szabolcs Nagy
Trutz Behn
Rich Felker