Very important and should be an easy sell: * improved robustness for high vma count on high memory machines * much higher `vm.max_map_count` by default * work on improving performance and resource usage with high vma count * add a way to disable the brk heap and have mmap grow upwards like it did in the past (preserving the same high base entropy) Somewhat important and an easy sell: * alternative to `RLIMIT_AS` for accountable mappings only * memory control groups are sometimes a better option but there are still users of `RLIMIT_AS` that are problematic for mitigations or simply fast garbage collector implementations, etc. mapping lots of `PROT_NONE` memory * mremap flag to disable unmapping the source mapping * also needed by jemalloc for different reasons * not needed if the kernel gets first class support for arbitrarily sized guard pages and a virtual memory quarantine feature Fairly infeasible to land but could reduce overhead and extend coverage of security features to other code directly using mmap: * first class support for arbitrarily sized guard pages for mmap and mremap to eliminate half of the resulting VMAs and reduce 2 system calls to 1 * not usable if it doesn't support mremap (shrink, grow, grow via move) * not usable if the guard page size is static * should support changing guard size for mremap growth via move * must be possible to set it up from the process * virtual memory quarantine * must be possible to set it up from the process * first-class support for aligned mappings with mmap and ideally mremap * not usable unless guard page support is provided and of course it has to work with this too