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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	riku.voipio@iki.fi, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	"Bernhard M. Wiedemann" <bwiedemann@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] ARM brk bug
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 21:17:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201203032117.39190.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <93FCCE39-FC5B-43F1-B581-76D2AD1660A6@suse.de>

> In QEMU with -R <high>
> 
> $ qemu-arm -R $(( 0x10000000 )) ./brk
> mmap: 0x935000
> current brk: 0xffffffff
> 00000000-00008000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
> 00008000-00009000 r-xp 00000000 08:09 1248935408          /brk
> 00009000-00010000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
> 00010000-00011000 r--p 00000000 08:09 1248935408          /brk
> 00011000-00012000 rw-p 00001000 08:09 1248935408          /brk
> 00012000-00013000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
> 00013000-00813000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0

Would tell us a lot more if (a) you gave us the map before the strace call, 
and (b) the requested size wasn't the same as the default stack size.  
> 
> qemu's strace says:
> 15545 mmap2(NULL,4096,PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,-1,0)
> = 0x00834000 [...]
> 15545
> mmap2(0x00005000,65536,PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,0,0)
> = 0x00935000 [...]
> 15545 brk(NULL) = 0x00012000
> 15545 brk(0x00812000) = 0x00012000

This is your bug.  According to the trace above, the brk call fails, but 
returns success anyway.  A quick look at do_brk confirms this suspicion.

Paul

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-03 21:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-27 15:16 [Qemu-devel] ARM brk bug Bernhard M. Wiedemann
2012-02-27 15:32 ` Peter Maydell
2012-02-27 17:03   ` Bernhard M. Wiedemann
2012-02-27 17:04     ` Peter Maydell
2012-03-02 17:49 ` Peter Maydell
2012-03-03  1:42   ` Alexander Graf
2012-03-03 21:02   ` Alexander Graf
2012-03-03 21:05     ` Alexander Graf
2012-03-03 21:17     ` Paul Brook [this message]
2012-03-03 22:08       ` Andreas Schwab
2012-03-03 21:23     ` malc

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