From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
        Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
        Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
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        Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
        Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] mm: introduce MAP_FIXED_SAFE
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Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 15:51:44 +1100
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Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz> writes:

> Hi!
>> > MAP_FIXED_UNIQUE
>> > MAP_FIXED_ONCE
>> > MAP_FIXED_FRESH
>> 
>> Well, I can open a poll for the best name, but none of those you are
>> proposing sound much better to me. Yeah, naming sucks...
>
> Given that MAP_FIXED replaces the previous mapping MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE
> would probably be a best fit.

Yeah that could work.

I prefer "no clobber" as I just suggested, because the existing
MAP_FIXED doesn't politely "replace" a mapping, it destroys the current
one - which you or another thread may be using - and clobbers it with
the new one.

cheers