these badly pollute the namespace with macros whenever _GNU_SOURCE is defined, which is always the case with g++, and especially tends to interfere with C++ constructs. as our implementation of these was macro-only, their removal cannot affect any existing binaries. at the source level, portable software should be prepared for them not to exist. for now, they are left in place with explicit _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE. this provides an easy temporary path for integrators/distributions to get packages building again right away if they break while working on a proper, upstreamable fix. the intent is that this be a very short-term measure and that the macros be removed entirely in the next release cycle.
see linux commit e47168f3d1b14af5281cf50c59561d59d28201f9 powerpc/8xx: Support 16k hugepages with 4k pages
it remaps anon mappings without unmapping the original. chromeos plans to use it with userfaultfd, see: linux commit e346b3813067d4b17383f975f197a9aa28a3b077 mm/mremap: add MREMAP_DONTUNMAP to mremap()
These were mainly introduced so android can optimize the memory usage of unused apps. MADV_COLD hints that the memory range is currently not needed (unlike with MADV_FREE the content is not garbage, it needs to be swapped): linux commit 9c276cc65a58faf98be8e56962745ec99ab87636 mm: introduce MADV_COLD MADV_PAGEOUT hints that the memory range is not needed for a long time so it can be reclaimed immediately independently of memory pressure (unlike with MADV_DONTNEED the content is not garbage): linux commit 1a4e58cce84ee88129d5d49c064bd2852b481357 mm: introduce MADV_PAGEOUT
aarch64 supports 32MB and 512MB hugetlb page sizes too. added in linux commit 20916d4636a9b3c1bf562b305f91d126771edaf9
memfd_create was added in linux v3.17 and glibc has api for it.
mlock2 syscall was added in linux v4.4 and glibc has api for it. It falls back to mlock in case of flags==0, so that case works even on older kernels. MLOCK_ONFAULT is moved under _GNU_SOURCE following glibc.
to map at a fixed address without unmapping underlying mappings (fails with EEXIST unlike MAP_FIXED), new in linux commits 4ed28639519c7bad5f518e70b3284c6e0763e650 and a4ff8e8620d3f4f50ac4b41e8067b7d395056843.
for synchronous page faults, new in linux commit 1c9725974074a047f6080eecc62c50a8e840d050 and b6fb293f2497a9841d94f6b57bd2bb2cd222da43 note that only targets that use asm-generic/mman.h have this new flag defined, so undef it on other targets (mips*, powerpc*).
*_HUGE_SHIFT, *_HUGE_2MB, *_HUGE_1GB are documented in the man page, so add all of the *_HUGE_* macros from linux uapi. if MAP_HUGETLB is set, top bits of the mmap flags encode the page size. see the linux commit aafd4562dfee81a40ba21b5ea3cf5e06664bc7f6 if SHM_HUGETLB is set, top bits of the shmget flags encode the page size. see the linux commit 4da243ac1cf6aeb30b7c555d56208982d66d6d33 *_HUGE_16GB is defined unsigned to avoid signed left shift ub.