Subject: [linux-audio-dev] memory leaks with munlock ...
From: Paul Barton-Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Tue Apr 04 2000 - 20:55:26 EEST
From the man page for munlock:
munlock reenables paging for the memory in the range
starting at addr with length len bytes. All pages which
contain a part of the specified memory range can after
calling munlock be moved to external swap space again by
the kernel.
This is *not* the desired behaviour! When I munlock the part of the
track file that we've passed over, I don't want it to be paged out, I
want to forget about it. Ick. I guess I need to unmap it as well, to
indicate that I am really and truly finished with it and that it is no
longer in use. For some reason, I imagined that just unlocking it
would be enough, but I now see that the kernel still thinks I'm
interested in it. mlock marked some pages of the VM space as
non-pageable, and munlock marks as pageable. Totally symmetric, but I
didn't treat it that way.
Gosh. Talk about a memory leak.
--p
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