No. You can't allocate the MMAP out of malloc. One of the goals of pools is that they allow us to call malloc as little as possible. The MMAP should just get a copy of the filename, and this problem goes away.
You'd rather allocate and copy a string and then recreate an MMAP than call apr_malloc once? If so, then there's something seriously wrong with apr_malloc.
You need to separate MMAPs from buckets. Buckets are one place MMAPs are used, but they are used in other places.
How is adding reference counting to the MMAP type tying MMAPs to buckets? They're totally unrelated, except that the bucket is going to use the MMAP. There's no coupling the other way.
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