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authorBen Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>2018-07-06 11:11:20 -0400
committerBen Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org>2018-07-06 14:08:37 -0400
commit8736715857d08cc1f88d766c257b39c05df20639 (patch)
tree88d687c08c55aa0bc4a684536d5e32554a5c02ef /rts/posix
parentf03f0d61bebe287e0df0254c175eb2f183d697aa (diff)
downloadhaskell-8736715857d08cc1f88d766c257b39c05df20639.tar.gz
rts: Enable two-step allocator on FreeBSD
Previously we would prevent any operating system not providing the MEM_NORESERVE flag from using the two-step allocator. Afterall, Linux will reserve swap-space for a mapping unless this flag is given, which is most certainly not what we want. However, it seems that FreeBSD provides the reservation-only mapping behavior that we expect despite not providing the MEM_NORESERVE macro. In fact, it provided the macro until 2014, when it was removed on account of not being implemented in the kernel. However, empirical evidence suggests that just plain mmap does what we want. Reviewers: erikd, simonmar Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie, erikd, carter GHC Trac Issues: #15348 Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4939
Diffstat (limited to 'rts/posix')
-rw-r--r--rts/posix/OSMem.c11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/rts/posix/OSMem.c b/rts/posix/OSMem.c
index e63e798be9..08f96350c9 100644
--- a/rts/posix/OSMem.c
+++ b/rts/posix/OSMem.c
@@ -102,8 +102,10 @@ void osMemInit(void)
The naming is chosen from the Win32 API (VirtualAlloc) which does the
same thing and has done so forever, while support for this in Unix systems
has only been added recently and is hidden in the posix portability mess.
- It is confusing because to get the reserve behavior we need MAP_NORESERVE
- (which tells the kernel not to allocate backing space), but heh...
+ The Linux manpage suggests that mmap must be passed MAP_NORESERVE in order
+ to get reservation-only behavior. It is confusing because to get the reserve
+ behavior we need MAP_NORESERVE (which tells the kernel not to allocate backing
+ space), but heh...
*/
enum
{
@@ -161,7 +163,10 @@ my_mmap (void *addr, W_ size, int operation)
else
prot = PROT_NONE;
if (operation == MEM_RESERVE)
-# if defined(MAP_NORESERVE)
+# if defined(MAP_GUARD)
+ // Provided by FreeBSD
+ flags = MAP_GUARD;
+# elif defined(MAP_NORESERVE)
flags = MAP_NORESERVE;
# else
# if defined(USE_LARGE_ADDRESS_SPACE)