The patch titled mlock() fix return values has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mlock-fix-return-values.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: mlock() fix return values From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Halesh says: Please find the below testcase provide to test mlock. Test Case : =========================== #include <sys/resource.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <errno.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main(void) { int fd,ret, i = 0; char *addr, *addr1 = NULL; unsigned int page_size; struct rlimit rlim; if (0 != geteuid()) { printf("Execute this pgm as root\n"); exit(1); } /* create a file */ if ((fd = open("mmap_test.c",O_RDWR|O_CREAT,0755)) == -1) { printf("cant create test file\n"); exit(1); } page_size = sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE); /* set the MEMLOCK limit */ rlim.rlim_cur = 2000; rlim.rlim_max = 2000; if ((ret = setrlimit(RLIMIT_MEMLOCK,&rlim)) != 0) { printf("Cant change limit values\n"); exit(1); } addr = 0; while (1) { /* map a page into memory each time*/ if ((addr = (char *) mmap(addr,page_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,MAP_SHARED,fd,0)) == MAP_FAILED) { printf("cant do mmap on file\n"); exit(1); } if (0 == i) addr1 = addr; i++; errno = 0; /* lock the mapped memory pagewise*/ if ((ret = mlock((char *)addr, 1500)) == -1) { printf("errno value is %d\n", errno); printf("cant lock maped region\n"); exit(1); } addr = addr + page_size; } } ====================================================== This testcase results in an mlock() failure with errno 14 that is EFAULT, but it has nowhere been specified that mlock() will return EFAULT. When I tested the same on older kernels like 2.6.18, I got the correct result i.e errno 12 (ENOMEM). I think in source code mlock(2), setting errno ENOMEM has been missed in do_mlock() , on mlock_fixup() failure. SUSv3 requires the following behavior frmo mlock(2). [ENOMEM] Some or all of the address range specified by the addr and len arguments does not correspond to valid mapped pages in the address space of the process. [EAGAIN] Some or all of the memory identified by the operation could not be locked when the call was made. This rule isn't so nice and slighly strange. but many people think POSIX/SUS compliance is important. Reported-by: Halesh <halesh.s@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> [2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory.c | 16 +++++++++++++--- mm/mlock.c | 2 -- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/memory.c~mlock-fix-return-values mm/memory.c --- a/mm/memory.c~mlock-fix-return-values +++ a/mm/memory.c @@ -2767,16 +2767,26 @@ int make_pages_present(unsigned long add vma = find_vma(current->mm, addr); if (!vma) - return -1; + return -ENOMEM; write = (vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE) != 0; BUG_ON(addr >= end); BUG_ON(end > vma->vm_end); len = DIV_ROUND_UP(end, PAGE_SIZE) - addr/PAGE_SIZE; ret = get_user_pages(current, current->mm, addr, len, write, 0, NULL, NULL); - if (ret < 0) + if (ret < 0) { + /* + SUS require strange return value to mlock + - invalid addr generate to ENOMEM. + - out of memory should generate EAGAIN. + */ + if (ret == -EFAULT) + ret = -ENOMEM; + else if (ret == -ENOMEM) + ret = -EAGAIN; return ret; - return ret == len ? 0 : -1; + } + return ret == len ? 0 : -ENOMEM; } #if !defined(__HAVE_ARCH_GATE_AREA) diff -puN mm/mlock.c~mlock-fix-return-values mm/mlock.c --- a/mm/mlock.c~mlock-fix-return-values +++ a/mm/mlock.c @@ -78,8 +78,6 @@ success: mm->locked_vm -= pages; out: - if (ret == -ENOMEM) - ret = -EAGAIN; return ret; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mlock-fix-return-values.patch vmscan-use-an-indexed-array-for-lru-variables.patch swap-use-an-array-for-the-lru-pagevecs.patch vmscan-split-lru-lists-into-anon-file-sets.patch vmscan-second-chance-replacement-for-anonymous-pages.patch unevictable-lru-infrastructure.patch unevictable-lru-infrastructure-nommu-fix.patch unevictable-lru-infrastructure-remember-pages-active-state.patch unevictable-lru-infrastructure-defer-vm-event-counting.patch unevictable-infrastructure-lru-add-event-counting-with-statistics.patch unevictable-lru-page-statistics.patch shm_locked-pages-are-unevictable.patch shm_locked-pages-are-unevictable-add-event-counts-to-list-scan.patch mlock-mlocked-pages-are-unevictable.patch mmap-handle-mlocked-pages-during-map-remap-unmap.patch vmstat-mlocked-pages-statistics.patch vmstat-mlocked-pages-statistics-mlocked-pages-add-event-counting-with-statistics.patch swap-cull-unevictable-pages-in-fault-path.patch vmscan-unevictable-lru-scan-sysctl.patch vmscam-kill-unused-lru-functions.patch mm-more-likely-reclaim-madv_sequential-mappings.patch make-mm-rmapc-anon_vma_cachep-static.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html