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authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>2009-08-13 21:03:58 +0300
committerRiku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>2009-08-25 17:15:35 +0300
commitfe3b415231ee66f4a3712e5e601a19096403886b (patch)
tree32d1986946038fb31ac7c3a19443ced9acd56ff1 /balloon.h
parent12727917db45aebb809e4b09c51e883c09a6366f (diff)
linux-user: Rewrite mmap_find_vma() to work fine on 64-bit hosts with 32-bit targets
qemu's page table can be incomple if /proc/self/maps is unavailable or host allocating a memory with mmap(), so we can't use it to find free memory area. New version mmap_find_vma() uses mmap() without MAP_FIXED to find free memory. Tested-by: Martin Mohring <martin.mohring@opensuse.org> : quite some time ago this patch had been sent by Kirill to the QEMU ml. At that time, the patch was rejected. Now we found out why the current user mode memory allocator sometimes fails: - Kernel Bug linux/fs/proc/task_mmu.c (fixed after 2.6.27) http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=17219 - use of proc file system to find memory mappings => bad idea So I please apply the attached patch from Kirill to qemu to fix this longstanding bug, because it causes all older linux distros (using kernel 2.6.26 or older) to fail the QEMU memory allocator in user mode. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>
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