[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] eal: use madvise to exclude unmapped memory from being dumped
Burakov, Anatoly
anatoly.burakov at intel.com
Fri Apr 24 17:20:50 CEST 2020
On 24-Apr-20 2:19 PM, Li Feng wrote:
> Currently, even though memory is mapped with PROT_NONE, this does not
> cause it to be excluded from core dumps. This is counter-productive,
> because in a lot of cases, this memory will go unused (e.g. when the
> memory subsystem preallocates VA space but hasn't yet mapped physical
> pages into it).
>
> Use `madvise()` call with MADV_DONTDUMP parameter to exclude the
> unmapped memory from being dumped.
>
> Signed-off-by: Li Feng <fengli at smartx.com>
> ---
> v6:
> - use RTE_DONTDUMP in right place.
>
> v5:
> - fix a code style.
>
> V4:
> - simplify the code;
> - remove the undo code in V3;
>
> V3:
> - add support for freebsd.
> - when free_seg is called, mark the memory MADV_DONTDUMP.
> - when alloc_seg is called, mark the memory MADV_DODUMP.
>
> lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_memory.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
> lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_memalloc.c | 3 +++
> 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_memory.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_memory.c
> index cc7d54e0c..cd20672ce 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_memory.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_memory.c
> @@ -40,6 +40,14 @@
> static void *next_baseaddr;
> static uint64_t system_page_sz;
>
> +#ifdef RTE_EXEC_ENV_LINUX
> +#define RTE_DONTDUMP MADV_DONTDUMP
> +#elif RTE_EXEC_ENV_FREEBSD
> +#define RTE_DONTDUMP MADV_NOCORE
> +#else
> +#error "madvise doesn't support this OS"
> +#endif
> +
> #define MAX_MMAP_WITH_DEFINED_ADDR_TRIES 5
> void *
> eal_get_virtual_area(void *requested_addr, size_t *size,
> @@ -179,6 +187,15 @@ eal_get_virtual_area(void *requested_addr, size_t *size,
> munmap(aligned_end, after_len);
> }
>
> + if (!unmap) {
> + /*
> + * Exclude this pages from a core dump.
> + */
> + if (madvise(aligned_addr, *size, RTE_DONTDUMP) != 0)
> + RTE_LOG(DEBUG, EAL, "madvise failed: %s\n",
> + strerror(errno));
> + }
> +
> return aligned_addr;
> }
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_memalloc.c b/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_memalloc.c
> index af6d0d023..f628e0991 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_memalloc.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_memalloc.c
> @@ -687,6 +687,9 @@ free_seg(struct rte_memseg *ms, struct hugepage_info *hi,
> return -1;
> }
>
> + if (madvise(ms->addr, ms->len, MADV_DONTDUMP) != 0)
> + RTE_LOG(DEBUG, EAL, "madvise failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
> +
> exit_early = false;
>
> /* if we're using anonymous hugepages, nothing to be done */
>
Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
--
Thanks,
Anatoly
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