On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 07:51:16AM -0700, David Ahern wrote: > > From man mmap: > > SIGBUS Attempted access to a portion of the buffer that > > does not correspond to the file (for example, beyond > > the end of the file, ...
SIGBUS is basically the std fail for any fault; there's a ton more reasons than listed in that manpage. Failing to dirty a page due to -ENOSPACE is one reason we'll trigger SIGBUS -- as you already found in that memcpy to mmap() instead of write() patch. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
