Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:55:06 -0500 From: "James R. Van Artsalen" <james@jrv.org> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: two 4GB mallocs => SEGV Message-ID: <417E8F7A.70009@jrv.org> In-Reply-To: <20041026173005.GA2984@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20041026115041.GE2841@sivokote.iziade.m$> <20041026173005.GA2984@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote:
>malloc.c:map_pages() calls brk(2) and this is where it goes to la-la land.
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The brk() kernel call is probably failing due to ulimit being exceeded
and not anything mysterious.
A few months ago I posted this bug in the libc brk(2) code - the stack
is not balanced if the kernel returns an error. I'm not running current
code at the moment but see if you brk.S has a stack issue at the err:
label. Stick in this pop if so and report if malloc(3c) then returns
NULL instead of crashing, then up your ulimit and try again and see if
all works without error.
--- lib/libc/amd64/sys/brk.S.~1~ Sat May 24 12:35:23 2003
+++ lib/libc/amd64/sys/brk.S Fri Apr 9 02:02:22 2004
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@
popq %rdi
ret
err:
+ popq %rdi
#ifdef PIC
movq PIC_GOT(HIDENAME(cerror)),%rdx
jmp *%rdx
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