POWER: Unexpected fault when writing to brk-allocated memory

Kirill A. Shutemov kirill at shutemov.name
Tue Nov 7 22:16:58 AEDT 2017


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.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov


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