mmap() failed on Linux 2.4.18-10smp with 4GB RAM

mmap() failed on Linux 2.4.18-10smp with 4GB RAM

[Lingli Zhang]

Hi there,

My machine is a 2-Processor Pentium 4 (Xeon) 2.4GHz e7500 Chipset with 4GB RAM.
I installed Redhat (kernel: Linux 2.4.18-10bigmem) on it. 

But when I run following piece of code:
========================================
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
int main(){
   mmap ((void *) 1090519040, 17000000,
         PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE | PROT_EXEC,
         MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
}
===========================================
It gives out "segmentation fault". It works well if I change 17000000
to 16000000.

I have tried Linux 2.4.18-10smp kernel, same problem.

Is there anyone have any idea what's going on here? Or do you have any
recommendation that which version of Linux I should use for my machine to work
around this problem?

Thanks a lot!

Lingli
-- 
Lingli Zhang
lingli_z@umail.ucsb.edu

Re: mmap() failed on Linux 2.4.18-10smp with 4GB RAM

[Steffen Persvold]

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Lingli Zhang wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> My machine is a 2-Processor Pentium 4 (Xeon) 2.4GHz e7500 Chipset with 4GB RAM.
> I installed Redhat (kernel: Linux 2.4.18-10bigmem) on it. 
> 
> But when I run following piece of code:
> ========================================
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <sys/mman.h>
> int main(){
>    mmap ((void *) 1090519040, 17000000,
>          PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE | PROT_EXEC,
>          MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
> }
> ===========================================
> It gives out "segmentation fault". It works well if I change 17000000
> to 16000000.
> 
> I have tried Linux 2.4.18-10smp kernel, same problem.
> 
> Is there anyone have any idea what's going on here? Or do you have any
> recommendation that which version of Linux I should use for my machine to work
> around this problem?
> 

Well, the problem is that you are forcing the mmap to create a virtual map 
starting at 0x41000000 and with 17000000 bytes that map is ending at 
0x42036640, which is right in the middle of where glibc gets mapped :

# cat /proc/2441/maps
08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 00:0c 163922     /home/sp/a.out
08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00000000 00:0c 163922     /home/sp/a.out
40000000-40013000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 416894     /lib/ld-2.2.5.so
40013000-40014000 rw-p 00013000 08:02 416894     /lib/ld-2.2.5.so
40014000-40015000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
40022000-40023000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
42000000-4212c000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 448959     /lib/i686/libc-2.2.5.so
4212c000-42131000 rw-p 0012c000 08:02 448959     /lib/i686/libc-2.2.5.so
42131000-42135000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
bfffe000-c0000000 rwxp fffff000 00:00 0

If you absolutely want to use this fixed address for your mmap, link your 
application statically, or maybe there's a way to tell the dynamic linker 
to put the libraries elsewhere ?

Regards,
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Re: mmap() failed on Linux 2.4.18-10smp with 4GB RAM

[Lingli Zhang]

Hi,

Thanks a lot to those who replied to me. Big help!

Now my question is how do I know where linux puts kernel in the memory?
What address is safe to mmap a big chunk?Is there a way to force it to be a
specific address? 

Best Regards!

Lingli

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Lingli Zhang
lingli_z@umail.ucsb.edu