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    [PATCH] fix remap of shared read only mappings · 31412915
    James Bottomley authored
    When mmap MAP_SHARED is done on a file, it gets marked with VM_MAYSHARE
    and, if it's read/write, VM_SHARED.  However, if it is remapped with
    mremap(), the MAP_SHARED is only passed into the new mapping based on
    VM_SHARED.  This means that remapped read only MAP_SHARED mappings lose
    VM_MAYSHARE.  This is causing us a problem on parisc because we have to
    align all shared mappings carefully to mitigate cache aliasing problems.
    
    The fix is to key passing the MAP_SHARED flag back into the remapped are
    off VM_MAYSHARE not VM_SHARED.
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