RFR: 8354922: ZGC: Use MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE when reserving memory

Tue Apr 22 06:22:59 UTC 2025

On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 08:30:27 GMT, Stefan Karlsson <stefank at openjdk.org> wrote:

> We have seen that some versions of the Linux kernel does not honor the address hint when mmapping memory without MAP_FIXED, if there is an adjacent memory area above the requested memory area. If we use MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE, the reservation succeeds. I propose that we start using MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE.
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> Tested via GHA, which runs the gtest that performs a discontiguous, but adjacent reservation. I will run this through a bunch of tiers before integrating.

lgtm.

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Marked as reviewed by aboldtch (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24716#pullrequestreview-2782878664