[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] memalloc: keep in mind a failed MAP_FIXED mmap may still perform an unmap

Dariusz Stojaczyk dariuszx.stojaczyk at intel.com
Fri Jun 1 14:59:20 CEST 2018


This isn't documented in the manuals, but a failed
mmap(..., MAP_FIXED) may still unmap overlapping
regions. In such case, we need to remap these regions
back into our address space to ensure mem contiguity.
We do it unconditionally now on mmap failure just to
be safe.

Verified on Linux 4.9.0-4-amd64. I was getting
ENOMEM when trying to map hugetlbfs with no space
left, and the previous anonymous mapping was still
being removed.

Changes from v2:
 * added "git fixline" tags

Changes from v1:
 * checkpatch fixes
 * remapping is now done regardless of the mmap errno

Fixes: 582bed1e1d1d ("mem: support mapping hugepages at runtime")
Cc: anatoly.burakov at intel.com
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Dariusz Stojaczyk <dariuszx.stojaczyk at intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memalloc.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memalloc.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memalloc.c
index 6be6680..81c94d5 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memalloc.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memalloc.c
@@ -527,7 +527,10 @@ alloc_seg(struct rte_memseg *ms, void *addr, int socket_id,
 	if (va == MAP_FAILED) {
 		RTE_LOG(DEBUG, EAL, "%s(): mmap() failed: %s\n", __func__,
 			strerror(errno));
-		goto resized;
+		/* mmap failed, but the previous region might have been
+		 * unmapped anyway. try to remap it
+		 */
+		goto unmapped;
 	}
 	if (va != addr) {
 		RTE_LOG(DEBUG, EAL, "%s(): wrong mmap() address\n", __func__);
@@ -588,6 +591,7 @@ alloc_seg(struct rte_memseg *ms, void *addr, int socket_id,
 
 mapped:
 	munmap(addr, alloc_sz);
+unmapped:
 	flags = MAP_FIXED;
 #ifdef RTE_ARCH_PPC_64
 	flags |= MAP_HUGETLB;
-- 
2.7.4



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