>From 9e3c8ac6f7ac8a490e020eea5dc68fca5244b354 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonas Grabber <jobegrabber@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 16:08:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] RLIMIT_DATA affects mmap (2) since 4.7
Starting with Linux kernel 4.5 and 84638335900f1995495838fe1bd4870c43ec1f67
(mm: rework virtual memory accounting) RLIMIT_DATA affects mmap (2).
With d977d56ce5b3e8842236f2f9e7483d4914c9592e (mm: warn about VmData
over RLIMIT_DATA) only warnings are emmitted when going over the
specified RLIMIT_DATA in 4.5.
As of 4.7 and f4fcd55841fc9e46daac553b39361572453c2b88 (mm: enable
RLIMIT_DATA by default with workaround for valgrind) going over
RLIMIT_DATA through mmap (2) is forbidden.
This updates man-pages 4.13 to reflect these changes.
---
man2/getrlimit.2 | 11 ++++++++---
man2/mmap.2 | 8 ++++++++
man3/malloc.3 | 2 +-
3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man2/getrlimit.2 b/man2/getrlimit.2
index 84f04d695..fd414fc54 100644
--- a/man2/getrlimit.2
+++ b/man2/getrlimit.2
@@ -179,9 +179,14 @@ perform an orderly termination upon first receipt of
This is the maximum size of the process's data segment (initialized data,
uninitialized data, and heap).
This limit affects calls to
-.BR brk (2)
-and
-.BR sbrk (2),
+.BR brk (2),
+.BR sbrk (2)
+and as of Linux 4.7 also
+.BR mmap (2)
+.\" commits 84638335900f1995495838fe1bd4870c43ec1f67
+.\" ("mm: rework virtual memory accounting"),
+.\" f4fcd55841fc9e46daac553b39361572453c2b88
+.\" (mm: enable RLIMIT_DATA by default with workaround for valgrind).
which fail with the error
.B ENOMEM
upon encountering the soft limit of this resource.
diff --git a/man2/mmap.2 b/man2/mmap.2
index df527809e..e5f134e4f 100644
--- a/man2/mmap.2
+++ b/man2/mmap.2
@@ -493,6 +493,14 @@ when unmapping a region in the middle of an
existing mapping,
since this results in two smaller mappings on either side of
the region being unmapped.
.TP
+.B ENOMEM
+(since Linux 4.7)
+The process's
+.B RLIMIT_DATA
+limit, described in
+.BR getrlimit (2),
+would have been exceeded.
+.TP
.B EOVERFLOW
On 32-bit architecture together with the large file extension
(i.e., using 64-bit
diff --git a/man3/malloc.3 b/man3/malloc.3
index d0e12fcfc..ac78662f7 100644
--- a/man3/malloc.3
+++ b/man3/malloc.3
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ Allocations performed using
.BR mmap (2)
are unaffected by the
.B RLIMIT_DATA
-resource limit (see
+resource limit only prior to Linux kernel 4.7 (see
.BR getrlimit (2)).
.PP
To avoid corruption in multithreaded applications,
--
2.13.5
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