Re: POWER: Unexpected fault when writing to brk-allocated memory

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 03:56:06PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> >> 
> >> If it is decided to keep these kind of heuristics, can we get just a
> >> small but reasonably precise description of each change to the
> >> interface and ways for using the new functionality, such that would be
> >> suitable for the man page? I couldn't fix powerpc because nothing
> >> matches and even Aneesh and you differ on some details (MAP_FIXED
> >> behaviour).
> >
> >
> > I would consider MAP_FIXED as my mistake. We never discussed this 
> > explicitly and I kind of assumed it to behave the same way. ie, we 
> > search in lower address space (128TB) if the hint addr is below 128TB.
> >
> > IIUC we agree on the below.
> >
> > 1) MAP_FIXED allow the addr to be used, even if hint addr is below 128TB 
> > but hint_addr + len is > 128TB.
> 
> So:
>   mmap(0x7ffffffff000, 0x2000, ..., MAP_FIXED ...) = 0x7ffffffff000
> 
> > 2) For everything else we search in < 128TB space if hint addr is below 
> > 128TB
> 
>   mmap((x < 128T), 0x1000, ...) = (y < 128T)
>   ...
>   mmap(0x7ffffffff000, 0x1000, ...) = 0x7ffffffff000
>   mmap(0x800000000000, 0x1000, ...) = 0x800000000000
>   ...
>   mmap((x >= 128T), 0x1000, ...) = (y >= 128T)
> 
> > 3) We don't switch to large address space if hint_addr + len > 128TB. 
> > The decision to switch to large address space is primarily based on hint 
> > addr
> 
> But does the mmap succeed in that case or not?
> 
> ie:  mmap(0x7ffffffff000, 0x2000, ...) = ?

It does, but resulting address doesn't match the hint. It's somewhere
below 47-bit border.

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 Kirill A. Shutemov