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Re: Server crash due to SIGBUS(Bus Error) when trying to access the memory created using dsm_create().

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, amul sul <sul_amul@yahoo.co.in>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-09-25T20:13:09Z
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I wrote:
> Rather than dig into the guts of glibc to find that out, though, I think
> we should just s/fallocate/posix_fallocate/g on this patch.  The argument
> for using the former seemed pretty thin to begin with.

Pushed with that change; we'll soon see what the buildfarm thinks.

I suspect that the provisions for EINTR and ENOSYS errors may now be
dead code, since the Linux man page for posix_fallocate mentions
neither.  They're not much code though, and POSIX itself *does*
list EINTR, so I'm hesitant to muck with that.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Fix failure-to-read-man-page in commit 899bd785c.

  2. Avoid SIGBUS on Linux when a DSM memory request overruns tmpfs.