From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com>
Cc: buildroot@buildroot.org, James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] utils/genrandconfig: reject qemu user mode on hosts with large pages
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2026 09:58:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <asX7mjz_1woqApr2@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260929090753.3570630-1-yegorslists@googlemail.com>
On Tue, Sep 29, 2026 at 11:07:53AM +0200, Yegor Yefremov via buildroot wrote:
> Qemu in user mode cannot load target binaries laid out for 4k pages
> when the host uses larger pages, as the 16k pages of the Asahi Linux
> kernel on Apple Silicon. The dynamic loader then fails with e.g.:
>
> GLib-2.0: error while loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: failed
> to map segment from shared object
>
> or, depending on the target:
>
> qemu-aarch64: .../GLib-2.0: Error mapping file: Invalid argument
> torque: error while loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: ELF load
> command address/offset not page-aligned
>
> This hits every package running target code through qemu at build
> time, i.e. gobject-introspection and nodejs, on mips, sparc64 and
> aarch64 alike, and is not something Buildroot can fix in the
> packages themselves.
>
> As this only depends on the build host, reject such configurations
> in genrandconfig when the host page size is larger than 4k.
>
> Fixes:
> https://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/4848e735fe83dfeef4f24d32655c567951fd113a (mips)
> https://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/089ddac5bdaaf5650cbc5c26d48952b5bede0ca6 (sparc64)
> https://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/c30c6719a0350370ebe3cfe262123727f4057734 (aarch64)
>
> Signed-off-by: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com>
> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5
Applied to master, thanks!
Best regards,
Thomas Petazzoni
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2026-09-29 9:07 [Buildroot] [PATCH] utils/genrandconfig: reject qemu user mode on hosts with large pages Yegor Yefremov via buildroot
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