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linux/include/asm-x86/mman.h
Ingo Molnar cd98a04a59 x86: add MAP_STACK mmap flag
as per this discussion:

   http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/12/423

Pardo reported that 64-bit threaded apps, if their stacks exceed the
combined size of ~4GB, slow down drastically in pthread_create() - because
glibc uses MAP_32BIT to allocate the stacks. The use of MAP_32BIT is
a legacy hack - to speed up context switching on certain early model
64-bit P4 CPUs.

So introduce a new flag to be used by glibc instead, to not constrain
64-bit apps like this.

glibc can switch to this new flag straight away - it will be ignored
by the kernel. If those old CPUs ever matter to anyone, support for
it can be implemented.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-15 11:45:19 -07:00

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#ifndef _ASM_X86_MMAN_H
#define _ASM_X86_MMAN_H
#include <asm-generic/mman.h>
#define MAP_32BIT 0x40 /* only give out 32bit addresses */
#define MAP_GROWSDOWN 0x0100 /* stack-like segment */
#define MAP_DENYWRITE 0x0800 /* ETXTBSY */
#define MAP_EXECUTABLE 0x1000 /* mark it as an executable */
#define MAP_LOCKED 0x2000 /* pages are locked */
#define MAP_NORESERVE 0x4000 /* don't check for reservations */
#define MAP_POPULATE 0x8000 /* populate (prefault) pagetables */
#define MAP_NONBLOCK 0x10000 /* do not block on IO */
#define MAP_STACK 0x20000 /* give out an address that is best suited for process/thread stacks */
#define MCL_CURRENT 1 /* lock all current mappings */
#define MCL_FUTURE 2 /* lock all future mappings */
#endif /* _ASM_X86_MMAN_H */