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Date:      Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:17:56 -0500
From:      Alan Cox <alan.l.cox@gmail.com>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Subject:   Re: Rtld object tasting [Was: Re: wired memory - again!]
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On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 07:14:09AM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2012-January/003288.html
>
> The map_object.c patch is step in the almost right direction, I wanted
> to remove the static page-sized buffer from get_elf_header for long time.
> It works because rtld always holds bind_lock exclusively while loading
> an object. There is no need to copy the first page after it is mapped.
>
> commit 0f6f8629af1345acded7c0c685d3ff7b4d9180d6
> Author: Konstantin Belousov <kib@freebsd.org>
> Date:   Wed Jun 13 22:04:18 2012 +0300
>
>    Eliminate the static buffer used to read the first page of the mapped
>    object, and eliminate the pread(2) call as well. Mmap the first page
>    of the object temporaly, and unmap it on error or last use.
>
>    Fix several cases were the whole mapping of the object leaked on error.
>
>    Potentially, this leaves one-page gap between succeeding dlopen(3),
>    but there are other mmap(2) consumers as well.
>
>
I suggest adding MAP_PREFAULT_READ to the mmap(2) call.  A heuristic in
vm_map_pmap_enter() would trigger automatic mapping for small files, but if
the object file is larger than 96 pages then you need to explicitly
specific MAP_PREFAULT_READ.

Alan



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