syscall: 0.535 instruction: 0.287 runtime: 0.178 QEMU-user ignores MADV_DONTNEED There is comment int the code "This is a hint, so ignoring and returning success is ok" https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/b1cffefa1b163bce9aebc3416f562c1d3886eeaa/linux-user/syscall.c#L11941 But it seems incorrect with the current state of Linux "man madvise" or https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/madvise.2.html says the following: >> These advice values do not influence the semantics >> of the application (except in the case of MADV_DONTNEED) >> After a successful MADV_DONTNEED operation, the semantics >> of memory access in the specified region are changed: >> subsequent accesses of pages in the range will succeed, >> but will result in either repopulating the memory contents >> from the up-to-date contents of the underlying mapped file >> (for shared file mappings, shared anonymous mappings, and >> shmem-based techniques such as System V shared memory >> segments) or zero-fill-on-demand pages for anonymous >> private mappings. Some applications use this behavior clear memory and it would be nice to be able to run them on QEMU without workarounds. Reproducer on "Debian 5.10.24 x86_64 GNU/Linux" as a host. ``` #include "assert.h" #include "stdio.h" #include #include int main() { char *P = (char *)mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0); assert(P); *P = 'A'; while (madvise(P, 4096, MADV_DONTNEED) == -1 && errno == EAGAIN) { } assert(*P == 0); printf("OK\n"); } /* gcc /tmp/madvice.c -o /tmp/madvice qemu-x86_64 /tmp/madvice madvice: /tmp/madvice.c:13: main: Assertion `*P == 0' failed. qemu: uncaught target signal 6 (Aborted) - core dumped Aborted /tmp/madvice OK */ ```