Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx> writes:
An application running with libhugetlbfs fails to allocate
additional pages to HEAP due to the hugemap being done
inconditionally as topdown mapping:
mmap(0x10080000, 1572864, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS|0x40000, -1, 0) = 0x73e80000
[...]
mmap(0x74000000, 1048576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS|0x40000, -1, 0x180000) = 0x73d80000
munmap(0x73d80000, 1048576) = 0
[...]
mmap(0x74000000, 1572864, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS|0x40000, -1, 0x180000) = 0x73d00000
munmap(0x73d00000, 1572864) = 0
[...]
mmap(0x74000000, 1572864, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS|0x40000, -1, 0x180000) = 0x73d00000
munmap(0x73d00000, 1572864) = 0
[...]
Can you explain the failure details above. I am not sure I understand
what to read from the above output.
As one can see from the above strace log, mmap() allocates further
pages below the initial one.
This patch fixes it by taking into account MAP_GROWSDOWN flag.
Rest of the kernel don't depend on that flag to select a topdown search
or not. So what is special with hugetlb? IF we select legacy mmap that
is when we select a bottomup search. Hugetlb on ppc64 always did a
topdown search.
Fixes: d0f13e3c20b6f ("[POWERPC] Introduce address space "slices" ")
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx>
---
v2: Added missing include
arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
index 79e1378ee303..0eadf9f199de 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
#include <linux/moduleparam.h>
#include <linux/swap.h>
#include <linux/swapops.h>
+#include <linux/mman.h>
#include <asm/pgtable.h>
#include <asm/pgalloc.h>
#include <asm/tlb.h>
@@ -558,7 +559,8 @@ unsigned long hugetlb_get_unmapped_area(struct file *file, unsigned long addr,
return radix__hugetlb_get_unmapped_area(file, addr, len,
pgoff, flags);
#endif
- return slice_get_unmapped_area(addr, len, flags, mmu_psize, 1);
+ return slice_get_unmapped_area(addr, len, flags, mmu_psize,
+ flags & MAP_GROWSDOWN);
}
#endif
--
2.13.3