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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: "Bernhard M. Wiedemann" <bwiedemann@suse.de>,
	Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>,
	qemu-devel qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] linux-user: map at TARGET_UNMAPPED_BASE with reserved_va
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 00:33:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201203040033.26488.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1330813157-11793-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de>

> When mmap()'ing memory somewhere where it's not allowed, we should not
> default to the "next free page" which could be right after brk()'ed memory,
> but rather at TARGET_UNMAPPED_BASE, which ensures that brk() can extend its
> space later on.

NACK, As discussed on IRC.

Effectively prevents mmap from allocating below TARGET_UNMAPPED_BASE.
This wastes a lot of perfectly good address space.  With small -R values it 
leaves mmap with no usable virtual address space.

Paul

      reply	other threads:[~2012-03-04  0:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-03 22:19 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] linux-user: map at TARGET_UNMAPPED_BASE with reserved_va Alexander Graf
2012-03-04  0:33 ` Paul Brook [this message]

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