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# Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2011 Google Inc.
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# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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# (at your option) any later version.
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# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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# General Public License for more details.
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
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# 02110-1301, USA.
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"""Wrapper around mlockall(2).
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"""
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import os |
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import logging |
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from ganeti import errors |
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try:
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# pylint: disable=F0401
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import ctypes |
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except ImportError: |
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ctypes = None
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# Flags for mlockall(2) (from bits/mman.h)
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_MCL_CURRENT = 1
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_MCL_FUTURE = 2
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def Mlockall(_ctypes=ctypes): |
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"""Lock current process' virtual address space into RAM.
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This is equivalent to the C call C{mlockall(MCL_CURRENT | MCL_FUTURE)}. See
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mlockall(2) for more details. This function requires the C{ctypes} module.
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@raises errors.NoCtypesError: If the C{ctypes} module is not found
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"""
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if _ctypes is None: |
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raise errors.NoCtypesError()
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try:
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libc = _ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary("libc.so.6")
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except EnvironmentError, err: |
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logging.error("Failure trying to load libc: %s", err)
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libc = None
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if libc is None: |
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logging.error("Cannot set memory lock, ctypes cannot load libc")
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return
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# The ctypes module before Python 2.6 does not have built-in functionality to
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# access the global errno global (which, depending on the libc and build
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# options, is per thread), where function error codes are stored. Use GNU
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# libc's way to retrieve errno(3) instead, which is to use the pointer named
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# "__errno_location" (see errno.h and bits/errno.h).
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# pylint: disable=W0212
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libc.__errno_location.restype = _ctypes.POINTER(_ctypes.c_int) |
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if libc.mlockall(_MCL_CURRENT | _MCL_FUTURE):
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# pylint: disable=W0212
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logging.error("Cannot set memory lock: %s",
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os.strerror(libc.__errno_location().contents.value)) |
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return
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logging.debug("Memory lock set")
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