This benefits unprivileged users who lack permissions to raise the `sys.vm.max_map_count' sysctl and/or RLIMIT_DATA resource limit. Multi-threaded callers to map_loose_object_1 (e.g. "git grep") appear to guard against thread-safety problems. Other multi-core aware pieces of code (e.g. parallel-checkout) uses child processes Forcing a call to unuse_one_window() once before xmmap_gently() revealed no test suite failures: --- a/object-file.c +++ b/object-file.c @@ -1197,6 +1197,7 @@ static void *map_loose_object_1(struct repository *r, const char *path, return NULL; } do { + unuse_one_window(NULL); map = xmmap_gently(NULL, *size, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0); } while (map == MAP_FAILED && errno == ENOMEM Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@xxxxxxxxx> --- object-file.c | 8 +++++++- packfile.c | 2 +- packfile.h | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/object-file.c b/object-file.c index f233b440b2..4c043f1f3c 100644 --- a/object-file.c +++ b/object-file.c @@ -1196,7 +1196,13 @@ static void *map_loose_object_1(struct repository *r, const char *path, close(fd); return NULL; } - map = xmmap(NULL, *size, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0); + do { + map = xmmap_gently(NULL, *size, PROT_READ, + MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0); + } while (map == MAP_FAILED && errno == ENOMEM + && unuse_one_window(NULL)); + if (map == MAP_FAILED) + die_errno("%s cannot be mapped", path); } close(fd); } diff --git a/packfile.c b/packfile.c index a0da790fb4..4bc7fa0f36 100644 --- a/packfile.c +++ b/packfile.c @@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ static void scan_windows(struct packed_git *p, } } -static int unuse_one_window(struct packed_git *current) +int unuse_one_window(struct packed_git *current) { struct packed_git *p, *lru_p = NULL; struct pack_window *lru_w = NULL, *lru_l = NULL; diff --git a/packfile.h b/packfile.h index 3ae117a8ae..da9a061e30 100644 --- a/packfile.h +++ b/packfile.h @@ -196,4 +196,6 @@ int is_promisor_object(const struct object_id *oid); int load_idx(const char *path, const unsigned int hashsz, void *idx_map, size_t idx_size, struct packed_git *p); +int unuse_one_window(struct packed_git *); + #endif