[Devel] Re: [PATCH 3/4] restart thread safety: remove malloc from genstack

[Matt Helsley]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 01:08:32PM -0400, Oren Laadan wrote:
> We use clone and eclone directly and not through glibc, therefore
> must explicitly care about thread-safety of malloc.
> 
> This patch eliminates the use of malloc() in genstack_alloc().
> Use mmap() instead. While an overkill, I don't expect performance
> issues of this.

Should work so long as we know the glibc mmap wrappers themselves are
reentrant/thread-safe. I expect they are but this might be a good thing
to confirm.

Cheers,
	-Matt Helsley
_______________________________________________
Containers mailing list
Containers at lists.linux-foundation.org
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers