[PATCH] NOMMU: Provide shared-writable mmap support on ramfs

The attached patch makes ramfs support shared-writable mmaps by:

 (1) Attempting to perform a contiguous block allocation to the requested size
     when truncate attempts to increase the file from zero size, such as
     happens when:

	fd = shm_open("/file/on/ramfs", ...):
	ftruncate(fd, size_requested);
	addr = mmap(NULL, subsize, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_SHARED,
		    fd, offset);

 (2) Permitting any shared-writable mapping over any contiguous set of extant
     pages. get_unmapped_area() will return the address into the actual ramfs
     pages. The mapping may start anywhere and be of any size, but may not go
     over the end of file. Multiple mappings may overlap in any way.

 (3) Not permitting a file to be shrunk if it would truncate any shared
     mappings (private mappings are copied).

Thus this patch provides support for POSIX shared memory on NOMMU kernels,
with certain limitations such as there being a large enough block of pages
available to support the allocation and it only working on directly mappable
filesystems.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 57 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ramfs/file-mmu.c b/fs/ramfs/file-mmu.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2115383dcc8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fs/ramfs/file-mmu.c
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+/* file-mmu.c: ramfs MMU-based file operations
+ *
+ * Resizable simple ram filesystem for Linux.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2000 Linus Torvalds.
+ *               2000 Transmeta Corp.
+ *
+ * Usage limits added by David Gibson, Linuxcare Australia.
+ * This file is released under the GPL.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * NOTE! This filesystem is probably most useful
+ * not as a real filesystem, but as an example of
+ * how virtual filesystems can be written.
+ *
+ * It doesn't get much simpler than this. Consider
+ * that this file implements the full semantics of
+ * a POSIX-compliant read-write filesystem.
+ *
+ * Note in particular how the filesystem does not
+ * need to implement any data structures of its own
+ * to keep track of the virtual data: using the VFS
+ * caches is sufficient.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <linux/pagemap.h>
+#include <linux/highmem.h>
+#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
+#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
+#include <linux/backing-dev.h>
+#include <linux/ramfs.h>
+
+#include <asm/uaccess.h>
+#include "internal.h"
+
+struct address_space_operations ramfs_aops = {
+        .readpage       = simple_readpage,
+        .prepare_write  = simple_prepare_write,
+        .commit_write   = simple_commit_write
+};
+
+struct file_operations ramfs_file_operations = {
+        .read           = generic_file_read,
+        .write          = generic_file_write,
+        .mmap           = generic_file_mmap,
+        .fsync          = simple_sync_file,
+        .sendfile       = generic_file_sendfile,
+        .llseek         = generic_file_llseek,
+};
+
+struct inode_operations ramfs_file_inode_operations = {
+        .getattr        = simple_getattr,
+};