pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)

Balazs Kezes rlblaster@gmail.com
Mon Sep 21 17:41:00 GMT 2015


On 2015-09-20 19:32 -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> You're still adding a new mprotect rather than just inverting the one
> that's already there (somewhere else) adding the PROT_NONE for the
> guard page. Is there a reason this is hard to do right on glibc?

Even if I manage to fix it properly (hah, I wish!) I won't be able to
test it as I lack the various hardware this function supports. I've
opened a bug instead so that more experienced people pick this up:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18988

Thanks!

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Balazs



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