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

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Tue Nov 07 2017 - 06:17:06 EST


On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 09:15:21AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> MAP_FIXED is near-impossible to use correctly. I hope you don't expect
> applications to do that. If you want address-based opt in, it should work
> without MAP_FIXED. Sure, in obscure cases, applications might still see
> out-of-range addresses, but I expected a full opt-out based on RLIMIT_AS
> would be sufficient for them.

Just use mmap(-1), without MAP_FIXED to get full address space.

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Kirill A. Shutemov