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SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 02/10] x86, mpx: add MPX specific mmap interface
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> wrote:
> On 06/25/2014 02:05 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> Hmm. the memfd_create thing may be able to do this for you. If you
>> created a per-mm memfd and mapped it, it all just might work.
>
> memfd_create() seems to bring a fair amount of baggage along (the fd
> part :) if all we want is a marker. Really, all we need is _a_ bit, and
> some way to plumb to userspace the RSS values of VMAs with that bit set.
>
> Creating and mmap()'ing a fd seems a rather roundabout way to get there.

Hmm. So does VM_MPX, though. If this stuff were done entirely in
userspace, then memfd_create would be exactly the right solution, I
think.

Would it work to just scan the bound directory to figure out how many
bound tables exist?

--Andy


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