18 Mar
2019
18 Mar
'19
12:10 p.m.
Quoting Chris Wilson (2019-03-14 11:44:37)
Quoting Tvrtko Ursulin (2019-03-14 11:33:43)
I am only wondering what happens to reads/write to the trailing area? Does shmemfs expands the backing store for this mmap and we just end up with otherwise unused chunk at the end?
My expectation would be that they generate a SIGBUS since the filp should not be extended to cover the absent pages. So it would be the equivalent of mmaping a file then calling ftruncate(0).
Ok, having just checked, what actually happens is that shmemfs quite happily allocates the extra page beyond the end of the object and userspace can freely read/write into that address space with only the mere consequence that those pages are not mapped to the GPU. -Chris