Thread (36 messages) 36 messages, 7 authors, 2017-11-11

Re: POWER: Unexpected fault when writing to brk-allocated memory

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
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