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Austin Clements authored
Currently large sysReserve calls on some OSes don't actually reserve the memory, but just check that it can be reserved. This was important when we called sysReserve to "reserve" many gigabytes for the heap up front, but now that we map memory in small increments as we need it, this complication is no longer necessary. This has one curious side benefit: currently, on Linux, allocations that are large enough to be rejected by mmap wind up freezing the application for a long time before it panics. This happens because sysReserve doesn't reserve the memory, so sysMap calls mmap_fixed, which calls mmap, which fails because the mapping is too large. However, mmap_fixed doesn't inspect *why* mmap fails, so it falls back to probing every page in the desired region individually with mincore before performing an (otherwise dangerous) MAP_FIXED mapping, which will also fail. This takes a long time for a large region. Now this logic is gone, so the mmap failure leads to an immediate panic. Updates #10460. Change-Id: I8efe88c611871cdb14f99fadd09db83e0161ca2e Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/85888 Run-TryBot: Austin Clements <austin@google.com> TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org> Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
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