memory allocation: smap large "Size", but unused

[Bernd Schubert]

Hello,

I'm just investigating why a user space program has a rather large 
VmSize, but small VmRSS size. Looking into /proc/$pid/smaps I notice 
several areas with an size of about 64MB, but otherwise that area is 
unused. So far I did not find a way how to reproduce that with malloc() 
calls.

7ffd34021000-7ffd38000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
Size:              65404 kB
Rss:                   0 kB
Pss:                   0 kB
Shared_Clean:          0 kB
Shared_Dirty:          0 kB
Private_Clean:         0 kB
Private_Dirty:         0 kB
Referenced:            0 kB
Anonymous:             0 kB
AnonHugePages:         0 kB
Swap:                  0 kB
KernelPageSize:        4 kB
MMUPageSize:           4 kB


Any idea how to do such an allocation from user space?


Thanks,
Bernd

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