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SubjectAsk for help on the memory allocation for process shared mutex (resend with plain text)
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Dear experts,

I came across a memory/mutex issue. Would you kindly shed some light on it?

I use pthread_mutex_xxx API to protect processes in user space. Since
it should be process shared, I allocated a shared memory to store
pthread_mutex_t structure.

The shared memory is allocated using vmalloc_user() and mapped using
remap_vmalloc_range() in driver. However, get_futex_key() will always
return -EFAULT, because page_head->mapping==0.

futex.c (Linux-3.10.31)
if (!page_head->mapping) {
int shmem_swizzled = PageSwapCache(page_head);
unlock_page(page_head);
put_page(page_head);
if (shmem_swizzled)
goto again;
return -EFAULT;
}

Is there special requirement on the memory to store mutex? What's the
correct way to allocate such memory in driver?
Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Ben


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