plugeth/consensus/ethash/mmap_help_other.go
Martin Holst Swende 178debe435
consensus/ethash: avoid runtime errors due to OOD on mmap writes (#23799)
When we map a file for generating the DAG, we do a simple truncate to e.g. 1Gb. This is fine, even if we have nowhere near 1Gb disk available, as the actual file doesn't take up the full 1Gb, merely a few bytes. When we start generating into it, however, it eventually crashes with a unexpected fault address .

This change fixes it (on linux systems) by using the Fallocate syscall, which preallocates suffcient space on disk to avoid that situation. 


Co-authored-by: Felix Lange <fjl@twurst.com>
2021-11-02 11:33:54 +01:00

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// Copyright 2021 The go-ethereum Authors
// This file is part of the go-ethereum library.
//
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//go:build !linux
// +build !linux
package ethash
import (
"os"
)
// ensureSize expands the file to the given size. This is to prevent runtime
// errors later on, if the underlying file expands beyond the disk capacity,
// even though it ostensibly is already expanded, but due to being sparse
// does not actually occupy the full declared size on disk.
func ensureSize(f *os.File, size int64) error {
// On systems which do not support fallocate, we merely truncate it.
// More robust alternatives would be to
// - Use posix_fallocate, or
// - explicitly fill the file with zeroes.
return f.Truncate(size)
}