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Commit c1beb51d authored by Adhemerval Zanella's avatar Adhemerval Zanella
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malloc: Add Huge Page support to arenas

It is enabled as default for glibc.malloc.hugetlb set to 2 or higher.
It also uses a non configurable minimum value and maximum value,
currently set respectively to 1 and 4 selected huge page size.

The arena allocation with huge pages does not use MAP_NORESERVE.  As
indicate by kernel internal documentation [1], the flag might trigger
a SIGBUS on soft page faults if at memory access there is no left
pages in the pool.

On systems without a reserved huge pages pool, is just stress the
mmap(MAP_HUGETLB) allocation failure.  To improve test coverage it is
required to create a pool with some allocated pages.

Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu with no reserved pages, 10 reserved pages
(which trigger mmap(MAP_HUGETBL) failures) and with 256 reserved pages
(which does not trigger mmap(MAP_HUGETLB) failures).

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.18/vm/hugetlbfs_reserv.html#resv-map-modifications



Reviewed-by: default avatarDJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
parent 98d5fcb8
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