qemu does not support this, yet [1], and you can get very tricky assert
if you will run program with jemalloc in use under qemu:
<jemalloc>: ../contrib/jemalloc/src/extent.c:1195: Failed assertion: "p[i] == 0"
[1]: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10576637/
Here is a simple example that shows the problem [2]:
// Gist to check possible issues with MADV_DONTNEED
// For example it does not supported by qemu user
// There is a patch for this [1], but it hasn't been applied.
// [1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-08/msg05422.html
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <assert.h>
#include <string.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
void *addr = mmap(NULL, 1<<16, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
if (addr == MAP_FAILED) {
perror("mmap");
return 1;
}
memset(addr, 'A', 1<<16);
if (!madvise(addr, 1<<16, MADV_DONTNEED)) {
puts("MADV_DONTNEED does not return error. Check memory.");
for (int i = 0; i < 1<<16; ++i) {
assert(((unsigned char *)addr)[i] == 0);
}
} else {
perror("madvise");
}
if (munmap(addr, 1<<16)) {
perror("munmap");
return 1;
}
return 0;
}
### unpatched qemu
$ qemu-x86_64-static /tmp/test-MADV_DONTNEED
MADV_DONTNEED does not return error. Check memory.
test-MADV_DONTNEED: /tmp/test-MADV_DONTNEED.c:19: main: Assertion `((unsigned char *)addr)[i] == 0' failed.
qemu: uncaught target signal 6 (Aborted) - core dumped
Aborted (core dumped)
### patched qemu (by returning ENOSYS error)
$ qemu-x86_64 /tmp/test-MADV_DONTNEED
madvise: Success
### patch for qemu to return ENOSYS
diff --git a/linux-user/syscall.c b/linux-user/syscall.c
index 897d20c076..5540792e0e 100644
--- a/linux-user/syscall.c
+++ b/linux-user/syscall.c
@@ -11775,7 +11775,7 @@ static abi_long do_syscall1(void *cpu_env, int num, abi_long arg1,
turns private file-backed mappings into anonymous mappings.
This will break MADV_DONTNEED.
This is a hint, so ignoring and returning success is ok. */
- return 0;
+ return ENOSYS;
#endif
#ifdef TARGET_NR_fcntl64
case TARGET_NR_fcntl64:
[2]: https://gist.github.com/azat/12ba2c825b710653ece34dba7f926ece
v2:
- review fixes
- add opt_dont_trust_madvise
v3:
- review fixes
- rename opt_dont_trust_madvise to opt_trust_madvise
a943172b73