Don't check if the memory is in core (#64)

libunwind uses mincore() to validate that memory is mapped and available to the process.
For this purpose, checking the return value of mincore() is sufficient.
The result array tells us if the kernel has swapped out the page or not.
We don't care about this, and the check leads to failure in those
cases where the kernel has swapped out the page.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/src/x86_64/Ginit.c b/src/x86_64/Ginit.c
index 2a84a1ee..b7e8e462 100644
--- a/src/x86_64/Ginit.c
+++ b/src/x86_64/Ginit.c
@@ -140,11 +140,6 @@ static int mincore_validate (void *addr, size_t len)
       return -1;
     }
 
-  for (i = 0; i < (len + PAGE_SIZE - 1) / PAGE_SIZE; i++)
-    {
-      if (!(mvec[i] & 1)) return -1;
-    }
-
   return write_validate (addr);
 }
 #endif
@@ -165,7 +160,7 @@ tdep_init_mem_validate (void)
   int ret;
   while ((ret = mincore ((void*)addr, PAGE_SIZE, mvec)) == -1 &&
          errno == EAGAIN) {}
-  if (ret == 0 && (mvec[0] & 1))
+  if (ret == 0)
     {
       Debug(1, "using mincore to validate memory\n");
       mem_validate_func = mincore_validate;