Calling mlockall() with huge amount of shmem-related pages in place causes the task to hang

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

If a number of huge page segments is allocated using shmget(), a subsequent mlockall() call may cause the task to hung.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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