Shrink heap on linux when overcommit_memory == 2
authorSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>
Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:40:29 +0000 (14:10 +0530)
committerSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>
Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:00:52 +0000 (14:30 +0530)
commit9fab36eb583c0e585e83a01253299afed9ea9a11
tree948ce03e0a724c8a3a7bca0fc1dbb7655f94e64e
parent2b4f00d1a42b705521ca205ad8285dde82d84f2b
Shrink heap on linux when overcommit_memory == 2

Using madvise with MADV_DONTNEED to release memory back to the kernel
is not sufficient to change the commit charge accounted against the
process on Linux.  It is OK however, when overcommit is enabled or is
heuristic.  However, when overcommit is restricted to a percentage of
memory setting the contents of /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory as 2, it
makes a difference since memory requests will fail.  Hence, we do what
we do with secure exec binaries, which is to call mmap on the region
to be dropped with MAP_FIXED. This internally unmaps the pages in
question and reduces the amount of memory accounted against the
process.
ChangeLog
malloc/arena.c
sysdeps/generic/malloc-sysdep.h [new file with mode: 0644]
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/malloc-sysdep.h [new file with mode: 0644]