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SubjectRe: syscall __NR_mmap2
Quoth Richard B. Johnson:
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> > Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > > mmap2(0xb8000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0xb8000) = 0xb8000
> >
> > You meant to write:
> >
> > mmap2(0xb8000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
> > MAP_SHARED|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0xb8000 >> 12);
> >
> > The offset argument to mmap2 is divided by PAGE_SIZE.
> > That is the whole point of mmap2 :)
> >
> > -- Jamie
>
> Okay. Do you know where that's documented? Nothing in linux/Documentation,
> and nothing in any headers. Do you have to read the code to find out?
>
> So, the address is now the offset in PAGES, not bytes. Seems logical,
> but there is no clue in any documentation.

With the possible exception of the man mmap2 ;-)

DESCRIPTION
The function mmap2 operates in exactly the same way as
mmap(2), except that the final argument specifies the off­
set into the file in units of the system page size
(instead of bytes). This enables applications that use a


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