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2019-01-01Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrights.Joseph Myers
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2018-01-01Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrights.Joseph Myers
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2017-01-01Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrights.Joseph Myers
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2014-01-01Update copyright notices with scripts/update-copyrightsAllan McRae
2013-02-05Add missing includes to sysdeps/generic/malloc-sysdep.h.Roland McGrath
2013-01-02Update copyright notices with scripts/update-copyrights.Joseph Myers
2012-09-25Shrink heap on linux when overcommit_memory == 2Siddhesh Poyarekar
Using madvise with MADV_DONTNEED to release memory back to the kernel is not sufficient to change the commit charge accounted against the process on Linux. It is OK however, when overcommit is enabled or is heuristic. However, when overcommit is restricted to a percentage of memory setting the contents of /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory as 2, it makes a difference since memory requests will fail. Hence, we do what we do with secure exec binaries, which is to call mmap on the region to be dropped with MAP_FIXED. This internally unmaps the pages in question and reduces the amount of memory accounted against the process.