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From: "Joakim Tjernlund" <joakim.tjernlund@lumentis.se>
To: "'Anton Blanchard'" <anton@samba.org>,
	"'Peter Bergner'" <bergner@vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 11:53:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000901c3ec9f$76acd7e0$0a01a8c0@LUMENTIS02> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040205170657.GA19011@krispykreme>


> > The problem with a TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE that was "too low"
> > was referring to the bug where we always loaded ld.so at
> > TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE even though that adress was in the middle of the
> > bss. Now that has been fixed, "too low" isn't a concern anymore.
> >
> > However, I'm not sure moving the TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE below the text
> > section will work. It's used for more than just loading shared libs.
> > Anonymous mmap areas and the heap are all located relative to it.
>
> That reminded me of a patch wli did to rearrange how things are
> allocated. I wonder if doing something radical like this will work on
> ppc32.
[SNIP patch]

Hi Anton

I tried your patch on my 2.4 kernel.
uClibc boots fine with the libs loaded towards lower addresses.

glibc won't boot, hangs direcly after mount.

 Jocke

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-06 10:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-03 13:05 TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE Joakim Tjernlund
2004-02-03 15:22 ` TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE Franz Sirl
2004-02-03 16:51   ` TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE Joakim Tjernlund
2004-02-04 14:37   ` TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE Peter Bergner
2004-02-04 14:47     ` TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE Anton Blanchard
2004-02-04 21:58       ` TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE Peter Bergner
2004-02-05  8:57     ` TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE Joakim Tjernlund
2004-02-05 16:34       ` TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE Peter Bergner
2004-02-05 17:06         ` TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE Anton Blanchard
2004-02-06 10:53           ` Joakim Tjernlund [this message]
2004-02-05 17:10         ` TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE Joakim Tjernlund

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