Trying to create shared memory segments bigger than 256gB fails with -EINVAL

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • A process fails with -EINVAL when attempting to create shared memory segments bigger than 256gB, either via mmap(2) or shmget(2) syscalls.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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