Hi, sorry for the late reply, 2017-12-14 17:36 GMT+00:00 Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 08:19:36AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 3:27 AM, Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> wrote: >> > It makes no sense to ever prod at special mappings with any of these >> > syscalls. >> > >> > XXX should we include munmap() ? >> >> This is an ABI break for the vdso. Maybe that's okay, but mremap() on >> the vdso is certainly used, and I can imagine debuggers using >> mprotect(). > > *groan*, ok so mremap() will actually still work after this, but yes, > mprotect() will not. I hadn't figured people would muck with the VDSO > like that.
mremap() is needed for CRIU, at least. Please, don't restrict munmap(), as ARCH_MAP_VDSO_* allows to map vdso iff it's not already mapped. We don't need +w vdso mapping, but I guess that may break gdb breakpoints on vdso. Also, AFAICS, vma_is_special_mapping() has two parameters in linux-next, and your patches set doesn't change that. Thanks, Dmitry