Re: equivalent of MAP_32BIT

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 03:41:55PM +0100, Justin Cormack wrote:
> I have been informed that there might be an undocumented ability to
> get mmap to return addresses in the lower 4G of address space on a 64
> bit machine by passing ~(unsigned)0 as the first parameter (or
> (1<<31)-1 for 2GB). Is this correct? Or is it possibley to use
> netbsd32_mmap()? Linux and some other OSs support a MAP_32BIT flag to
> achieve this, looking for a way to port some code to NetBSD that
> requires this.

Hmmm.... If adding a flag a MAP_BELOW would be more generally useful
than a MAP_32BIT.

With the current system call interface it isn't possible for a
64 bit userspace to make a 32 bit system call.

        David

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