Hello, POSIX says that mmap should take the addr parameter as a suggestion in an implementation-defined manner. On GNU/Hurd it's atm not used at all. Some applications (such as firefox) frown on this and just busy-loop.
This makes mmap try with anywhere = 0 when addr is non-zero, before trying with anywhere = 1 if it failed. Samuel 2011-12-26 Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org> * sysdeps/mach/hurd/mmap.c (__mmap): When `mapaddr' is non zero, try __vm_allocate and __vm_map with `anywhere' set to 0 first, and try with `anywhere' set to 1 only on KERN_NO_SPACE error. --- mmap.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/sysdeps/mach/hurd/mmap.c b/sysdeps/mach/hurd/mmap.c index 1d1460c..96d7661 100644 --- a/sysdeps/mach/hurd/mmap.c +++ b/sysdeps/mach/hurd/mmap.c @@ -51,15 +51,20 @@ __mmap (__ptr_t addr, size_t len, int prot, int flags, int fd, off_t offset) { /* vm_allocate has (a little) less overhead in the kernel too. */ err = __vm_allocate (__mach_task_self (), &mapaddr, len, - !(flags & MAP_FIXED)); + !mapaddr); - if (err == KERN_NO_SPACE && (flags & MAP_FIXED)) + if (err == KERN_NO_SPACE) { - /* XXX this is not atomic as it is in unix! */ - /* The region is already allocated; deallocate it first. */ - err = __vm_deallocate (__mach_task_self (), mapaddr, len); - if (!err) - err = __vm_allocate (__mach_task_self (), &mapaddr, len, 0); + if (flags & MAP_FIXED) + { + /* XXX this is not atomic as it is in unix! */ + /* The region is already allocated; deallocate it first. */ + err = __vm_deallocate (__mach_task_self (), mapaddr, len); + if (!err) + err = __vm_allocate (__mach_task_self (), &mapaddr, len, 0); + } + else if (mapaddr) + err = __vm_allocate (__mach_task_self (), &mapaddr, len, 1); } return err ? (__ptr_t) (long int) __hurd_fail (err) : (__ptr_t) mapaddr; @@ -135,21 +140,32 @@ __mmap (__ptr_t addr, size_t len, int prot, int flags, int fd, off_t offset) err = __vm_map (__mach_task_self (), &mapaddr, (vm_size_t) len, (vm_address_t) 0, - ! (flags & MAP_FIXED), + !mapaddr, memobj, (vm_offset_t) offset, ! (flags & MAP_SHARED), vmprot, VM_PROT_ALL, (flags & MAP_SHARED) ? VM_INHERIT_SHARE : VM_INHERIT_COPY); - if (err == KERN_NO_SPACE && (flags & MAP_FIXED)) + if (err == KERN_NO_SPACE) { - /* XXX this is not atomic as it is in unix! */ - /* The region is already allocated; deallocate it first. */ - err = __vm_deallocate (__mach_task_self (), mapaddr, len); - if (! err) + if (flags & MAP_FIXED) + { + /* XXX this is not atomic as it is in unix! */ + /* The region is already allocated; deallocate it first. */ + err = __vm_deallocate (__mach_task_self (), mapaddr, len); + if (! err) + err = __vm_map (__mach_task_self (), + &mapaddr, (vm_size_t) len, (vm_address_t) 0, + 0, memobj, (vm_offset_t) offset, + ! (flags & MAP_SHARED), + vmprot, VM_PROT_ALL, + (flags & MAP_SHARED) ? VM_INHERIT_SHARE + : VM_INHERIT_COPY); + } + else if (mapaddr) err = __vm_map (__mach_task_self (), &mapaddr, (vm_size_t) len, (vm_address_t) 0, - 0, memobj, (vm_offset_t) offset, + 1, memobj, (vm_offset_t) offset, ! (flags & MAP_SHARED), vmprot, VM_PROT_ALL, (flags & MAP_SHARED) ? VM_INHERIT_SHARE