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    Avoid SIGBUS on Linux when a DSM memory request overruns tmpfs. · 899bd785
    Tom Lane authored
    On Linux, shared memory segments created with shm_open() are backed by
    swap files created in tmpfs.  If the swap file needs to be extended,
    but there's no tmpfs space left, you get a very unfriendly SIGBUS trap.
    To avoid this, force allocation of the full request size when we create
    the segment.  This adds a few cycles, but none that we wouldn't expend
    later anyway, assuming the request isn't hugely bigger than the actual
    need.
    
    Make this code #ifdef __linux__, because (a) there's not currently a
    reason to think the same problem exists on other platforms, and (b)
    applying posix_fallocate() to an FD created by shm_open() isn't very
    portable anyway.
    
    Back-patch to 9.4 where the DSM code came in.
    
    Thomas Munro, per a bug report from Amul Sul
    
    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1002664500.12301802.1471008223422.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com
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