dmmlib/src/request_memory_mmap_linux.c

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/**
 * \file   request_memory_mmap_linux.c
 * \author Ioannis Koutras
 * \date   August, 2012
 * \brief  Request additional memory space via mmap() in Linux.
 */

#include "request_memory.h"
#include <sys/stat.h> /* for open() */
#include <fcntl.h> /* for open() */

#include <sys/mman.h>

static int dev_zero_fd = -1; /* Cached file descriptor for /dev/zero. */

void *request_memory(size_t size) {	
    int fd;
    void *zone;

    if(dev_zero_fd < 0) {
        dev_zero_fd = open("/dev/zero", O_RDWR);
    }
    fd = dev_zero_fd;

    zone = mmap(0, size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);

    if(zone == MAP_FAILED) {
        return NULL;
    } else {
        return zone;
    }
}