This feature was introduced in version 4.17 of the Linux kernel, and
while it's not specified by POSIX, I think it will be a nice addition to
our system.
MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE provides a less error-prone alternative to
MAP_FIXED: while regular fixed mappings would cause any intersecting
ranges to be unmapped, MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE returns EEXIST instead. This
ensures that we don't corrupt our process's address space if something
is already at the requested address.
Note that the more portable way to do this is to use regular
MAP_ANONYMOUS, and check afterwards whether the returned address matches
what we wanted. This, however, has a large performance impact on
programs like Wine which try to reserve large portions of the address
space at once, as the non-matching addresses have to be unmapped
separately.
Add the `posix_madvise(..)` LibC implementation that just forwards
to the normal `madvise(..)` implementation.
Also define a few POSIX_MADV_DONTNEED and POSIX_MADV_NORMAL as they
are part of the POSIX API for `posix_madvise(..)`.
This is needed by the `fio` port.
The advices are almost always exclusive of one another, and while POSIX
does not define madvise, most other unix-like and *BSD systems also only
accept a singular value per call.
This allows userspace to trigger a full (FIXME) flush of a shared file
mapping to disk. We iterate over all the mapped pages in the VMObject
and write them out to the underlying inode, one by one. This is rather
naive, and there's lots of room for improvement.
Note that shared file mappings are currently not possible since mmap()
returns ENOTSUP for PROT_WRITE+MAP_SHARED. That restriction will be
removed in a subsequent commit. :^)
Looking at how these two constants are commonly used in other systems,
we should be able to mimic their behavior using our PT_PEEK constant.
For example, see:
https://man.netbsd.org/NetBSD-6.0.1/i386/ptrace.2
This patch begins the work of sharing types and macros between Kernel
and LibC instead of duplicating them via the kludge in UnixTypes.h.
The basic idea is that the Kernel vends various POSIX headers via
Kernel/API/POSIX/ and LibC simply #include's them to get the macros.
