Bug#25460 - High concurrency MyISAM access causes severe mysqld crash.
The previous two patches for this bug worked together so that no permanent table was memory mapped. The first patch tried to avoid mapping while a table is in use. It allowed mapping only if there was exactly one lock on the table, assuming that the calling thread owned it. During mi_open(), a different call to memory mapping was coded, which did not have this limitation. The second patch tried to remove the code duplication and just called mi_extra() from mi_open() an thus inherited the limitation. But on open, a thread does not have a lock on the table... A possible solution would be to check for zero or one lock. But since I learned that it is safe to memory map a file while normal file I/O is done on it, I removed the restriction altogether and allow to memory map while a table is in use. No test case. I do not see a chance to verify with the test suite which kind of I/O is used on a table.
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