Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2021 22:31:26 +0300 From: Vitaliy Gusev <gusev.vitaliy@gmail.com> To: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: madvise(MADV_FREE) doesn't work in some cases? Message-ID: <59F26FB5-3A88-42C5-816F-B877977CBA6B@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <57BCE463-6200-4F83-A321-2F0444E7F063@gmail.com> References: <0A95973D-254A-4574-8DC7-9F515F60B873@gmail.com> <YOBLn/XHpmEBfAdw@kib.kiev.ua> <57BCE463-6200-4F83-A321-2F0444E7F063@gmail.com>
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Further investigation shown that if use MADV_DONTNEED in simple mmap test program and run it twice (second after the first finishes madvise()), then memory is not freed at all and first instance is killed.
If change MADV_DONTNEED flag with MADV_FREE, then memory is freed.
Code is:
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <err.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <sys/cdefs.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
size_t len = (size_t)(argc > 1 ? atoi(argv[1]) : 1024) * 1024 * 1024;
uint8_t *ptr, *end;
uint8_t *p;
int pagesz = (1<<12);
ptr = (uint8_t *)mmap(NULL, len, PROT_WRITE | PROT_READ, MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0);
if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
err(1, "cannot mmap");
end = ptr + len;
p = ptr;
while (p < end) {
*(uint64_t *)p = 1;
p += pagesz;
}
sleep(1);
printf("madvise\n");
p = ptr;
while (p < end) {
int error;
error = madvise(p, pagesz, MADV_DONTNEED);
if (error) {
err(1, "cannot madvise");
}
p += pagesz;
}
printf("press Enter to exit\n");
getchar();
}
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