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The memory-mapped files implementation (mmap() etc.) is implemented with the help of the filesystems using the in-VM FS cache. Filesystems tell it about all cached blocks and their metadata. Metadata is: device offset and, if any (and known), inode number and in-inode offset. VM can then map in requested memory-mapped file blocks, and request them if necessary. A limitation of this system is that filesystem block sizes that are not a multiple of the VM system (and VM hardware) page size are not possible; we can't map blocks in partially. (We can copy, but then the benefits of mapping and sharing the physical pages is gone.) So until before this commit various pieces of caching code assumed page size multiple blocksizes. This isn't strictly necessary as long as mmap() needn't be supported on that FS. This change allows the in-FS cache code (libminixfs) to allocate any-sized blocks, and will not interact with the VM cache for non-pagesize-multiple blocks. In that case it will also signal requestors, by failing 'peek' requests, that mmap() should not be supported on this FS. VM and VFS will then gracefully fail all file-mapping mmap() calls, and exec() will fall back to copying executable blocks instead of mmap()ping executables. As a result, 3 diagnostics that signal file-mapped mmap()s failing (hitherto an unusual occurence) are disabled, as ld.so does file-mapped mmap()s to map in objects it needs. On FSes not supporting it this situation is legitimate and shouldn't cause so much noise. ld.so will revert to its own minix-specific allocate+copy style of starting executables if mmap()s fail. Change-Id: Iecb1c8090f5e0be28da8f5181bb35084eb18f67b |
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