Re: mprotect() failed: Cannot allocate memory

From: PaweÅ Sikora
Date: Wed Apr 21 2010 - 04:33:59 EST


Dnia 21-04-2010 o 11:22:19 Yann Droneaud <yann@xxxxxxxxxxx> napisaÅ(a):

Le mercredi 21 avril 2010 Ã 01:44 +0200, PaweÅ Sikora a Ãcrit :
On Wednesday 21 April 2010 01:17:22 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 April 2010 19:05:20 PaweÅ Sikora wrote:
> > i'm trying to debug an ugly application with ElectricFence.
>
> electricfence does a lot of ugly memory tricks to do its thing, including,
> but not limited to, overriding memory related symbols. best to seek help
> from the electricfence authors.

so, let's avoid EF and run following test:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>

void* my_alloc( size_t n )
{
size_t ps = getpagesize();
printf( "request for %Zd bytes => ", n );
/* alloc PAGE_SIZE + n */
char* p = mmap( 0, ps + n, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED |
MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0 );
if ( p == MAP_FAILED )
__builtin_abort();
/* block guard page */
int rc = mprotect( p, ps, PROT_NONE );
if ( rc != 0 )
__builtin_abort();
char* q = p + ps;
printf( "guard page @ %p, allocated region @ %p\n", p, q );
return q;
}

int main()
{
#define N 100
size_t NN = 4*100*100;
size_t kmax = 100;
int i;

double **bm = (double **)my_alloc( NN * sizeof( double* ) );
for( i = 0; i < NN; ++i )
{
bm[ i ] = (double*)my_alloc( kmax * sizeof( double ) );
}
// leak...
return 0;
}

and the result is...

(...)
mmap(NULL, 4896, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x7f5fd97df000
mprotect(0x7f5fd97df000, 4096, PROT_NONE) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory)

Have you checked available memory on your system ? Or user limit ?

You test program is going to allocate
79 + 1 pages for bm
1 + 1 for each double arrays (x 40000)

So in the end your program is allocating 80080 pages, so about
312MBytes.

It not that big for a 64bits system.

Check limits such as
-d the maximum size of a process's data segment
-l the maximum size a process may lock into memory
-m the maximum resident set size

$ ulimit -a
-t: cpu time (seconds) unlimited
-f: file size (blocks) unlimited
-d: data seg size (kbytes) unlimited
-s: stack size (kbytes) 8192
-c: core file size (blocks) 0
-m: resident set size (kbytes) unlimited
-u: processes unlimited
-n: file descriptors 1024
-l: locked-in-memory size (kb) 64
-v: address space (kb) unlimited
-x: file locks unlimited
-i: pending signals 64024
-q: bytes in POSIX msg queues 819200
-e: max nice 0
-r: max rt priority 0

$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 8004 1779 6224 0 36 1228
-/+ buffers/cache: 514 7489
Swap: 15625 0 15625


imho the testcase has enough hardware resources.
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