From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Subject: Re: what is ~1MB of memory allocated at fffea000-fffff000 on ppc64?
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:15:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46D43C11.2070105@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18131.45155.16087.714489@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Chris Friesen writes:
>>For some background, we're running an emulator that uses a null pointer
>>value of 0xffff0000 and we want any accesses to that address to trap.
> Can you fix this in userspace instead by moving the stack down below
> 0xffff0000 and then doing munmap(0xffff0000, 0x1000) ?
It sounds like it would work. I'm not entirely clear on how to move the
starting point of the stack though--could you elaborate or point me to a
reference?
Chris
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-28 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-27 20:22 what is ~1MB of memory allocated at fffea000-fffff000 on ppc64? Chris Friesen
2007-08-27 20:31 ` Anton Blanchard
2007-08-27 22:05 ` Chris Friesen
2007-08-27 23:19 ` Anton Blanchard
2007-08-28 5:19 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-08-28 15:15 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
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