Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Mar 2003 16:23:32 +0100 | From | Stephane <> | Subject | Re: exit_mmap |
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Actually I was talking about 2.4.19 but I saw that this was solved in 2.5, sorry for the disturbance
Stephane wrote: > > I have a question about mmap and the close operation of a > vm_area_struct. > Is there a reason why in exit_mmap, when a process dies unexpectedly, > the vm_ops->close is called before zap_page_range is called? > > The problem is that if you have allocated one or several kernel pages > for a vm_area_struct, you can not free them in the vm_ops->close > operation since the count field of the pages is not 0 because they are > still mapped. The count will be cleared when zap_page_range is called. > > This means that exit_mmap calls vm_ops->close and zap_page_range in the > reverse order of a normal execution of the process, that is when the > process unmap the area before dying. > > It would be more deterministic and simple if vm_ops->close was always > called when all the pages of the area was unmapped. > > PS: please can you CC'ed the answer to stephane.tessier@netinsight.se > -- > Stephane Tessier > Net Insight AB stephane.tessier@netinsight.se > Västberga Allé 9 http://www.netinsight.se > SE-126 30 Hägersten phone:+46-8-685 04 60 > Sweden fax: +46-8-685 04 20
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