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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: "Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] linux-user mmap bug
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 09:38:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BF6B6F9.3070802@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100521132817.GA8021@edde.se.axis.com>

On 05/21/2010 06:28 AM, Edgar E. Iglesias wrote:
>          ptr = mmap(g2h(addr), size, PROT_NONE,
> -                   MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
> +                   /* When the kernel returns addresses that the guest
> +                      cannot use we might need to fallback to fixed
> +                      allocations.  */
> +                   (addr ? MAP_FIXED : 0)
> +                   | MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);

NACK.  We are in fact probing for a free address in this loop,
so you don't know that the address being tested is in fact free.

I have a patch series that attempts to clean this up, but it 
isn't quite optimal.  I'll post it for reference, however.


r~

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-21 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-21 13:28 [Qemu-devel] linux-user mmap bug Edgar E. Iglesias
2010-05-21 16:38 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2010-05-21 17:39   ` Richard Henderson
2010-05-24 14:57     ` Edgar E. Iglesias
2010-05-24 15:45       ` Richard Henderson
2010-05-25  9:19         ` Edgar E. Iglesias

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