Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/07/12/16:57:45
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> The problem results from introducing MAP_NORESERVE in 1.5.19. That's
> the reason the same code works on 1.5.18. Your code simply defines
> MAP_NORESERVE to 0 under 1.5.18.
While that is true, I compiled the STC with MAP_NORESERVE defined under
the 1.5.21s headers, and then ran the binary without recompiling it under
1.5.[18-20]. So, you must have ignored the MAP_NORESERVE value in the
older releases since it was passed to mmap in my test.
> The message you see is from a call to VirtualProtect, which must not be
> called on reserved pages (which is MEM_RESERVE'd, which is, funny
> enough, the Windows define equivalent to Linux' MAP_NORESERVE). I fixed
> that in CVS.
Thanks.
> > addr = NULL;
> > virt_size = 0x18000000;
> > addr = mmap(addr, virt_size, (PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE),
> > (MAP_NORESERVE|MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON), fd, 0);
> > if (addr == MAP_FAILED)
> > {
> > perror("mapping VM scratch space");
> > close(fd);
> > return -1;
> > }
> >
> > *(volatile char *)addr;
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This is a bug in your application.
It actually isn't in my application. I just put it here to test the
validity of the addressed returned.
> You can't rely on being able to access memory mmap'ed with
> MAP_NORESERVE.
Huh? You mean for read as opposed to write access? I guess I should have
done this instead:
*(volatile char *)addr = 0;
which is somewhat closer to what my application would be doing, but I
don't understand why a read shouldn't work as well.
They would both fail if there was not enough swap space to allocate the
first page of the map on reference, but that is highly unlikely in this
case.
> This might succeed on Linux, but it's not guaranteed. It certainly
> doesn't work this way on Cygwin. Call something like `mprotect (addr,
> virt_size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE)' before accessing the mmap'ed memory.
Why? I already told mmap it should have these attributes.
There is a bug in one of our understandings of MAP_NORESERVE symantics.
My understanding of MAP_NORESERVE is from the Solaris man page:
The MAP_NORESERVE option specifies that no swap space be
reserved for a mapping. Without this flag, the creation of a
writable MAP_PRIVATE mapping reserves swap space equal to
the size of the mapping; when the mapping is written into,
the reserved space is employed to hold private copies of
the data. A write into a MAP_NORESERVE mapping produces
results which depend on the current availability of swap
space in the system. If space is available, the write
succeeds and a private copy of the written page is created;
if space is not available, the write fails and a SIGBUS or
SIGSEGV signal is delivered to the writing process.
MAP_NORESERVE mappings are inherited across fork(); at the
time of the fork(), swap space is reserved in the child for
all private pages that currently exist in the parent;
thereafter the child's mapping behaves as described above.
So, the only difference with MAP_NORESERVE is that swap space is not
reserved up front, but on reference (read is unclear from this
description, but write is definately clear). If on reference we run out
of swap, SIGBUS is generated.
What am I missing?
> Thanks for the testcase,
Thank you for your help. And, sorry for the rant.
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