Re: [Question] Can we release vma that include code when one processis running?

[liyu@WAN]

Sorry, I perhaps didn't said clearly.

As I knwon, if we remove vma from vma tree of task, the SIGSEGV must be got!
but I am not removed them , I just unmapped them. and the SIGSEGV occurs 
some times,
not alway.

I doublt on it.

Any clearly idea?

many thanks.

> liyu@WAN wrote:
>
> >    It seem that code in other place jump here to enter kernel. this 
> > is in a anonymous
> > code area.
> >    At first time, I think this SIGSEGV will trigger by anonymous code 
> > that is swapped,
> > but I wrote one specical condition check to filte out this sort of 
> > code, IOW, I do
> > not swap out it. but I still get SIGSEGV.
> >
> >    May be, we can not be release the vma that include code? or, Is 
> > there have some errors
> > in my words for page fault?
>
> That's right, you cannot release the VMA if the application still
> expects to use memory in that area. The page fault handler will
> see that no VMA exists in that region and raise a SIGSEGV.
>
> See arch/i386/mm/fault.c:do_page_fault
>
>
> Nick

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