Re: POWER: Unexpected fault when writing to brk-allocated memory
From: Kirill A. Shutemov <hidden>
Date: 2017-11-07 11:17:03
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From: Kirill A. Shutemov <hidden>
Date: 2017-11-07 11:17:03
Also in:
linux-arch, linux-mm, lkml
On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 09:15:21AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
MAP_FIXED is near-impossible to use correctly. I hope you don't expect applications to do that. If you want address-based opt in, it should work without MAP_FIXED. Sure, in obscure cases, applications might still see out-of-range addresses, but I expected a full opt-out based on RLIMIT_AS would be sufficient for them.
Just use mmap(-1), without MAP_FIXED to get full address space. -- Kirill A. Shutemov