From: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
To: Andrea Cervesato <andrea.cervesato@suse.com>
Cc: Linux Test Project <ltp@lists.linux.it>
Subject: Re: [LTP] [PATCH 4/5] mremap04: Convert to new API
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2026 09:59:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <anWQedSd9MwlSymD@yuki.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6a7579d4.5dfca4bd.124bf4.ac84@mx.google.com>
Hi!
> > > + * Pass old_size of one page while the segment is two pages: the
> > > + * mismatch is intentional and must be preserved.
> > > */
> >
> > Wouldn't this be enough for the mremap() to fail even with regular
> > mmap()? I do not see what the test needs the sysv shm for.
>
> actually yes, but I think the original idea was to mix SysV with mremap()
> syscall.
I would keep this test simple.
And we can add another test with a gap as well. If we map 3 pages, then
unmap page in the middle we will get:
| page 0 | hole | page 2 |
Now remap without MAYMOVE on page0 that spans into page2 will fail too.
> > Also the interaction between SysV shm and mremap() seems to be more
> > complicated and may warrant more tests.
>
> mmmh, any idea?
Looking stack overflow mremap() should be strictly local to the process.
That means that that SysV mapping or MAP_SHARED mappings shouldn't
change the mapping length in other processes sharing the mapping.
Strangely there does not seem to be much documentation for this. So it's
a corner case worth exploring (raised more than 10 years ago
https://lwn.net/Articles/591985/).
Also while reading the manual I found another possible test for mremap()
+ userfaultfd(). You should get a fault event for expanded mappings if
you access the expanded region.
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Cyril Hrubis
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-07 8:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-21 12:41 [LTP] [PATCH 0/5] Rewrite mremap testing suite Andrea Cervesato
2026-07-21 12:41 ` [LTP] [PATCH 1/5] mremap01: Convert to new API Andrea Cervesato
2026-07-21 13:53 ` [LTP] " linuxtestproject.agent
2026-08-06 11:45 ` [LTP] [PATCH 1/5] " Cyril Hrubis
2026-07-21 12:41 ` [LTP] [PATCH 2/5] mremap02: " Andrea Cervesato
2026-08-06 11:50 ` Cyril Hrubis
2026-07-21 12:41 ` [LTP] [PATCH 3/5] mremap03: " Andrea Cervesato
2026-08-06 11:58 ` Cyril Hrubis
2026-07-21 12:41 ` [LTP] [PATCH 4/5] mremap04: " Andrea Cervesato
2026-08-06 13:28 ` Cyril Hrubis
2026-08-07 6:23 ` Andrea Cervesato via ltp
2026-08-07 7:59 ` Cyril Hrubis [this message]
2026-08-07 12:24 ` Andrea Cervesato via ltp
2026-07-21 12:41 ` [LTP] [PATCH 5/5] mremap05: " Andrea Cervesato
2026-08-06 15:51 ` Cyril Hrubis
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