Fix mlockall()/madvise() interaction.

mlockall(2) can cause purging via madvise(2) to fail.  Fix purging code
to check whether madvise() succeeded, and base zeroed page metadata on
the result.

Reported by Olivier Lecomte.
This commit is contained in:
Jason Evans
2012-10-08 17:56:11 -07:00
parent f4c3f8545b
commit 7de92767c2
5 changed files with 48 additions and 41 deletions

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@@ -113,22 +113,30 @@ pages_trim(void *addr, size_t alloc_size, size_t leadsize, size_t size)
#endif
}
void
bool
pages_purge(void *addr, size_t length)
{
bool unzeroed;
#ifdef _WIN32
VirtualAlloc(addr, length, MEM_RESET, PAGE_READWRITE);
unzeroed = true;
#else
# ifdef JEMALLOC_PURGE_MADVISE_DONTNEED
# define JEMALLOC_MADV_PURGE MADV_DONTNEED
# define JEMALLOC_MADV_ZEROS true
# elif defined(JEMALLOC_PURGE_MADVISE_FREE)
# define JEMALLOC_MADV_PURGE MADV_FREE
# define JEMALLOC_MADV_ZEROS false
# else
# error "No method defined for purging unused dirty pages."
# endif
madvise(addr, length, JEMALLOC_MADV_PURGE);
int err = madvise(addr, length, JEMALLOC_MADV_PURGE);
unzeroed = (JEMALLOC_MADV_ZEROS == false || err != 0);
# undef JEMALLOC_MADV_PURGE
# undef JEMALLOC_MADV_ZEROS
#endif
return (unzeroed);
}
static void *