I'm facing a quite tricky problem. I'm trying to get 2 virtual memory areas pointing to the same physical memory. The point is to have different page protection parameters on different memory areas.
On this forum, the user seems to have a solution, but it seems kinda hacky and it's pretty clear that something better can be done performance-wise :
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/programming-scripting/19491-map-two-virtual-memory-addres-same-physical-page.html
As I'm facing the same problem, I want to give a shot here to know if somebody has a better idea. Don't be afraid to mention the dirty details behind the hood, this is what this question is about.
Thank by advance.
I'm trying to get 2 virtual memory area pointing on the same physical memory.
mmap the same region in the same file, twice, or use System V shared memory (which does not require mapping a file in memory).
I suppose if you dislike Sys V shared memrory you could use POSIX shared memory objects. They're not very popular but available on Linux and BSDs at least.
Once you get an fd with shm_open you could immediately call shm_unlink. Then no other process can attach to the same shared memory, and you can mmap it multiple times. Still a small race period available though.
If you are root, you can mmap("/dev/mem", ...) but there are caveats in the newer kernels, see accessing mmaped /dev/mem?
