[PATCH] NOMMU: Provide shared-writable mmap support on ramfs

The attached patch makes ramfs support shared-writable mmaps by:

 (1) Attempting to perform a contiguous block allocation to the requested size
     when truncate attempts to increase the file from zero size, such as
     happens when:

	fd = shm_open("/file/on/ramfs", ...):
	ftruncate(fd, size_requested);
	addr = mmap(NULL, subsize, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_SHARED,
		    fd, offset);

 (2) Permitting any shared-writable mapping over any contiguous set of extant
     pages. get_unmapped_area() will return the address into the actual ramfs
     pages. The mapping may start anywhere and be of any size, but may not go
     over the end of file. Multiple mappings may overlap in any way.

 (3) Not permitting a file to be shrunk if it would truncate any shared
     mappings (private mappings are copied).

Thus this patch provides support for POSIX shared memory on NOMMU kernels,
with certain limitations such as there being a large enough block of pages
available to support the allocation and it only working on directly mappable
filesystems.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This commit is contained in:
David Howells
2006-01-06 00:11:41 -08:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 9f6d4b0c21
commit 642fb4d1f1
6 changed files with 378 additions and 22 deletions

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@@ -34,13 +34,12 @@
#include <linux/ramfs.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include "internal.h"
/* some random number */
#define RAMFS_MAGIC 0x858458f6
static struct super_operations ramfs_ops;
static struct address_space_operations ramfs_aops;
static struct inode_operations ramfs_file_inode_operations;
static struct inode_operations ramfs_dir_inode_operations;
static struct backing_dev_info ramfs_backing_dev_info = {
@@ -142,25 +141,6 @@ static int ramfs_symlink(struct inode * dir, struct dentry *dentry, const char *
return error;
}
static struct address_space_operations ramfs_aops = {
.readpage = simple_readpage,
.prepare_write = simple_prepare_write,
.commit_write = simple_commit_write
};
struct file_operations ramfs_file_operations = {
.read = generic_file_read,
.write = generic_file_write,
.mmap = generic_file_mmap,
.fsync = simple_sync_file,
.sendfile = generic_file_sendfile,
.llseek = generic_file_llseek,
};
static struct inode_operations ramfs_file_inode_operations = {
.getattr = simple_getattr,
};
static struct inode_operations ramfs_dir_inode_operations = {
.create = ramfs_create,
.lookup = simple_lookup,