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author | Andrew Yourtchenko <ayourtch@gmail.com> | 2018-11-26 15:40:20 +0100 |
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committer | Dave Barach <openvpp@barachs.net> | 2018-11-26 17:09:01 +0000 |
commit | 37f44563637d2fa2fe454fd8c100958ec9b7a754 (patch) | |
tree | 4173b7d133a0477efb583eb0e846e938f1ab816c /README.md | |
parent | 2af0e3a74c40e5df946813324574ccc18feb4761 (diff) |
vppinfra: prevent dlmalloc from allocating memory via mmap_alloc()
If the heap does not have enough space to satisfy allocation
request, the allocator calls sys_alloc(). There, if the request
is bigger than mparams.mmap_threshold, the mmap_alloc() is called
to allocate memory via a direct mmap call.
The resulting allocated memory is properly recognized by
clib_mem_is_heap_object() only for the first such request.
Subsequent requests overwrite the tracking data, resulting
in previously "valid" addresses become invalid, as seen
by clib_mem_is_heap_object(). The result is a misleading
behavior which masks other issues.
This is a temporary change to avoid the affected codepath
until there is a proper fix to track the directly mmap-allocated
memory.
Change-Id: I4137f91b5196d4503c40cf8ecc2f71554bc8f858
Signed-off-by: Andrew Yourtchenko <ayourtch@gmail.com>
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