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From: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: unneeded mremap calls in realloc
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:50:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111117025031.GR132@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111116004536.GV24939@port70.net>

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 01:45:37AM +0100, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> 
> as discussed on irc, in realloc there is a mremap
> where newlen is pagesize adjusted but oldlen is not
> so oldlen==newlen almost always fails
> 
> run this simple test case with strace to see the issue:
> 
> #include <stdlib.h>
> int main(){
> 	char *p = 0;
> 	int n;
> 
> 	for (n = 0; n < 500000; n++)
> 		p = realloc(p, n);
> 	free(p);
> 	return 0;
> }
> 
> the fix that significantly speeds up the above code:
> (there might be better fix, eg why oldlen is not a
> multiple of pagesize in the first place?)

oldlen should always be a multiple of page size.. Need to check out
why it's not...

Rich


  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-17  2:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-16  0:45 Szabolcs Nagy
2011-11-17  2:50 ` Rich Felker [this message]
2011-11-17  5:02 ` Rich Felker
2011-11-17 12:31   ` Szabolcs Nagy

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