From 642fb4d1f1dd2417aa69189fe5ceb81e4fb72900 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 00:11:41 -0800 Subject: [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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/ramfs/Makefile | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/ramfs/Makefile') diff --git a/fs/ramfs/Makefile b/fs/ramfs/Makefile index f096f3007091..5a0236e02ee1 100644 --- a/fs/ramfs/Makefile +++ b/fs/ramfs/Makefile @@ -4,4 +4,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_RAMFS) += ramfs.o -ramfs-objs := inode.o +file-mmu-y := file-nommu.o +file-mmu-$(CONFIG_MMU) := file-mmu.o +ramfs-objs += inode.o $(file-mmu-y) -- cgit v1.2.3