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Re: perf/jit doesn't cope well with mprotect() to jit containing pages

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On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 09:02:18PM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> 
> I presume the increasing MMAP2 size is triggered by the consecutive
> pages being represented as a single page-range in the kernel?

Yes, we print struct vm_area_struct based information, if vmas get
merged, that shows.

> If I, to work around such consecutive pages, force another page to be
> mmap()ed inbetween, and avoid using MAP_ANONYMOUS, the problem also goes
> away.

This would indeed inhibit vma merging.

> Am I doing something wrong, or is there a bug here?

Expected behaviour afaict

> BTW, it's also a bit weird that those MMAP2 records triggered by
> mprotect/mmap, have prot set to 0...

Yes, mprotect() does: vma->vm_flags = newflags; before calling
perf_event_mmap(vma); which then looks at VM_{READ,WRITE,EXEC} bits in
that word to generate the prot value.

So that being 0 is a bit weird.

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perf/jit doesn't cope well with mprotect() to jit containing pages Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> - 2016-12-10 06:10 +0100
  Re: perf/jit doesn't cope well with mprotect() to jit containing  pages Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-12-12 09:50 +0100
    Re: perf/jit doesn't cope well with mprotect() to jit containing pages Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> - 2016-12-12 10:10 +0100
      Re: perf/jit doesn't cope well with mprotect() to jit containing  pages Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-12-12 10:30 +0100

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