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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
	"dvaleev@suse.com" <dvaleev@suse.com>,
	Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] PPC: Fix linker scripts on ppc hosts
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:04:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201112141204.45646.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA_e4AGwMqzWqiim=Z82ABkPjXUyakiza1D9Zi0CS+YiCQ@mail.gmail.com>

> The proper solution would be to rewrite mmap.c to be smarter (perhaps
> by looking at /proc/self/maps and reserving a lot of space with PROT_NONE
> mappings at startup and then managing it itself), but so far nobody's
> done that

Yes they have. That's what -R does.

We used to try and parse /proc/self/maps.  This caused more problems than it 
solved.  It doesn't cover things like mmap_min_addr, and you have to re-parse 
it before every allocation in case the host libc allocated something new in 
between.

Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-14 12:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-12 21:36 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] PPC: Fix linker scripts on ppc hosts Alexander Graf
2011-12-13  0:55 ` Richard Henderson
2011-12-13  1:05   ` Alexander Graf
2011-12-13  6:19   ` Paul Brook
2011-12-13  7:45     ` Alexander Graf
2011-12-13 16:31       ` Paul Brook
2011-12-13 21:59         ` Alexander Graf
2011-12-14  0:30           ` Paul Brook
2011-12-14  1:43             ` Alexander Graf
2011-12-14  2:24               ` Paul Brook
2011-12-20 16:17               ` Peter Maydell
2011-12-20 16:29                 ` Alexander Graf
2011-12-20 16:33                   ` Peter Maydell
2011-12-20 16:43                     ` Alexander Graf
2011-12-14  8:53             ` Peter Maydell
2011-12-14 12:04               ` Paul Brook [this message]
2011-12-14 12:21                 ` Peter Maydell
2011-12-14 17:34                   ` Paul Brook
2011-12-13  8:13     ` Peter Maydell

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