mlock() and vm_max_wired

[Dmitry Sivachenko]

On 23 июня 2014 г., at 13:52, Dmitry Sivachenko <trtrmitya at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I am using FreeBSD-10/stable and have a problem with mlock().
> I have 256GB of memory and a program which does mmap+mlock on a number of data files.  It can process one file several times (so it does mmap() + mlock() on the same file more than once).
> I set vm.max_wired=67108864 (67108864 * 4k = 256GB), so it is allowed to mlock() the whole RAM.
> 
> The total size of all files is about 180GB.
> 
> The program fails with mlock: Resource temporarily unavailable  error.
> 
> If I increase vm.max_wired even more, the program works fine and after it starts top(1) shows about 186GB of Wired memory.
> 
> Why does it fail with vm.max_wired=67108864?  Is it a bug or am I missing something?
> 
> Thanks.


Forgot to add the I suspect the following fragment in vm_mmap.c, in vm_mlock() function:

if (npages + cnt.v_wire_count > vm_page_max_wired)
                return (EAGAIN);

If we mlock() the same region second time, this condition can be true though after mlock() these pages will not increase total locked pages counter.