gh-143632: Detect availability of PR_SET_VMA at runtime (fixes build with musl libc)

[sideeffect42]

Building latest Python 3.15.0a8+ on musl-based Linux fails with the following error:

gcc -c -fno-strict-overflow -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall    -std=c11 -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wstrict-prototypes -Werror=implicit-function-declaration -fvisibility=hidden  -I./Include/internal -I./Include/internal/mimalloc  -I. -I./Include    -DPy_BUILD_CORE -o Objects/obmalloc.o Objects/obmalloc.c
In file included from ./Include/internal/pycore_mmap.h:16,
                 from Objects/obmalloc.c:5:
/usr/include/sys/prctl.h:88:8: error: redefinition of 'struct prctl_mm_map'
   88 | struct prctl_mm_map {
      |        ^~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from ./Include/internal/pycore_mmap.h:15:
/usr/include/linux/prctl.h:134:8: note: originally defined here
  134 | struct prctl_mm_map {
      |        ^~~~~~~~~~~~
make: *** [Makefile:3388: Objects/obmalloc.o] Error 1

This is due to Python including both <linux/prctl.h> and <sys/prctl.h> (which on glibc imports the definitions from <linux/prctl.h> and on musl includes all the definitions itself).
Given that Python is not the Linux kernel, <sys/prctl.h> should be included.

Another issue of the previous implementation and the configure check was that the _PyAnnotateMemoryMap() function would only be enabled if the linux-headers on the build host are recent enough to contain the PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME macro.

However the resulting binaries might be run on older kernels lacking the functionality or be built on older systems but run on newer kernels.

With this patch, the function is always enabled and the magic numbers are included with Python, so that the prctl() is always executed and feature detection is essentially done at runtime.

When run on a kernel too old to support PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME, mmap.mmap.set_name() will silently do nothing.
When the kernel is new enough but CONFIG_ANON_VMA_NAME is not enabled, mmap.mmap.set_name() will raise an OSError, e.g.:

>>> mm.set_name("hello")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<python-input-5>", line 1, in <module>
    mm.set_name("hello")
    ~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument

• Issue: failure building Python 3.15.0a3 on Alpine #143632

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[corona10]

I think that you should fix the detecting logic of HAVE_PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME not code itself.

[corona10]

See here:

cpython/configure.ac

Lines 5731 to 5740 in bfe6f9f

	# musl libc redefines struct prctl_mm_map and conflicts with linux/prctl.h
	AS_IF([test "$ac_cv_libc" != musl], [
	AC_CHECK_DECLS([PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME],
	[AC_DEFINE([HAVE_PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME], [1],
	[Define if you have the 'PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME' constant.])],
	[],
	[@%:@include <linux/prctl.h>
	@%:@include <sys/prctl.h>])
	])
	# check for openpty, login_tty, and forkpty

[sideeffect42]

Why would I fix the detection logic to address a compile-time error in the actual implementation?

When you think about what this configure step actually does, you may notice that what we are detecting there has no real connection to reality.
The set of macro definitions in the two header files is either whatever the libc has copied from a random kernel version (<sys/prctl.h>) or whatever the version of the system's linux-headers package contains (<linux/prctl.h>).

Both of which don't have to match the kernel which will then actually run the interpreter in the future.

Say, the interpreter is compiled as part of the build chain of some distro which is then used as the base image for a Linux container.
The kernel on which this container may be run does not have to have anything in common with the kernel the distro in the base image usually ships.
What does this configure check tell us?

Further, the mere presence of #define HAVE_PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME in <linux/prctl.h> says nothing about whether the kernel has CONFIG_ANON_VMA_NAME enabled.
So Python could call prctl() on a kernel which does not support this feature.

[NagendraRK]

I am with @sideeffect42. This has nothing to do with compile time error. It has to do with the implementation. The value it emits in <sys/kernal_info.h> needs to chnage in a future PR. Thoughts ?