Ask for help on the memory allocation for process shared mutex

[yang ben <benyangfsl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear experts,

 

I came across a memory/mutex issue. Would you kindly shed some light on it?

 

I use pthread_mutex_xxx API to protect processes in user space. Since it should be process shared, I allocated a shared memory to store pthread_mutex_t structure.

 

The shared memory is allocated using vmalloc_user() and mapped using remap_vmalloc_range() in driver. However, get_futex_key() will always return -EFAULT, because page_head->mapping==0.

 

futex.c (Linux-3.10.31)

         if (!page_head->mapping) {
                 int shmem_swizzled = PageSwapCache(page_head);
                 unlock_page(page_head);
                 put_page(page_head);
                 if (shmem_swizzled)
                         goto again;
                 return -EFAULT;
         }

Is there special requirement on the memory to store mutex? What's the correct way to allocate such memory in driver?

Thanks in advance!

 

Regards,

Ben