On Wed, 13 May 2015, Michal Hocko wrote: > From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> > > MAP_LOCKED had a subtly different semantic from mmap(2)+mlock(2) since > it has been introduced. > mlock(2) fails if the memory range cannot get populated to guarantee > that no future major faults will happen on the range. mmap(MAP_LOCKED) on > the other hand silently succeeds even if the range was populated only > partially. > > Fixing this subtle difference in the kernel is rather awkward because > the memory population happens after mm locks have been dropped and so > the cleanup before returning failure (munlock) could operate on something > else than the originally mapped area. > > E.g. speculative userspace page fault handler catching SEGV and doing > mmap(fault_addr, MAP_FIXED|MAP_LOCKED) might discard portion of a racing > mmap and lead to lost data. Although it is not clear whether such a > usage would be valid, mmap page doesn't explicitly describe requirements > for threaded applications so we cannot exclude this possibility. > > This patch makes the semantic of MAP_LOCKED explicit and suggest using > mmap + mlock as the only way to guarantee no later major page faults. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Does the problem still happend when MAP_POPULATE | MAP_LOCKED is used (AFAICT MAP_POPULATE will cause the mmap to fail if all the pages cannot be made present). Either way this is a good catch. Acked-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@xxxxxxxxxx>
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