From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Xen devel list <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Elf loader fixes
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:12:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43FC7F59.7030503@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43FC6C62.76F0.0078.0@novell.com>
Jan Beulich wrote:
> I'm afraid this won't work for 64-bits, because of the way the vsyscall page gets set up there. If you dump the program
> headers you'll see that the respective segment is at an address close to the top of the address space, which would make
> the image appear to need nearly 2 Gb of memory (making the load fail if there's less than that available to the
> domain).
Hmm, who sets up the vsyscall mapping right now? The linux kernel I
guess? The elf kernel loader certainly doesn't look like it cares much
about virtual address (other than VIRT_BASE) ...
cheers,
Gerd
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I'm the hacker formerly known as Gerd Knorr.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-22 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-22 11:37 [PATCH] Elf loader fixes Gerd Hoffmann
2006-02-22 12:51 ` Jan Beulich
2006-02-22 13:33 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-02-22 15:12 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2006-02-22 15:30 ` Jan Beulich
2006-02-22 16:10 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-02-22 16:11 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-02-22 16:25 ` Jacob Gorm Hansen
[not found] <E1F6x4v-0001lS-2n@host-192-168-0-1-bcn-london>
2006-02-22 18:17 ` Joe Bonasera
2006-02-23 11:15 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-03-01 9:48 ` Christian Limpach
2006-03-01 15:00 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-03-06 13:40 ` Gerd Hoffmann
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