From: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: powerpc userspace address space layout information
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 08:30:56 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51642620.4050201@genband.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130407055844.GB17787@truffula.fritz.box>
On 04/06/2013 11:58 PM, David Gibson wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 10:53:58PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
>> Third, what's the most reliable way to ensure a block of addresses around
>> 0xf6000000 don't get used for shared libraries? (We want to preserve
>> those addresses for emulating hardware in a virtual machine.) We have
>> this working on an older system but after upgrading to new software the
>> libraries now extend further down the address space.
>
> The only reliable method I can think of would be to use a custom
> linker script to give your binary an extra program header specifying
> that virtual region to map.
Thanks for your help. We had started working on the custom linker
script while waiting to see if anyone would respond, so it's good to get
some validation that we picked the right solution.
Chris
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-09 14:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-05 4:53 powerpc userspace address space layout information Chris Friesen
2013-04-07 5:58 ` David Gibson
2013-04-09 14:30 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
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