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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Elf loader fixes
| To: | "Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel@xxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Elf loader fixes |
| From: | "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:30:20 +0100 |
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>>> Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx> 22.02.06 16:12:25 >>> >Jan Beulich wrote: >> I'm afraid this won't work for 64-bits, because of the way the vsyscall page >> gets set up there. If you dump the program >> headers you'll see that the respective segment is at an address close to the >> top of the address space, which would make >> the image appear to need nearly 2 Gb of memory (making the load fail if >> there's less than that available to the >> domain). > >Hmm, who sets up the vsyscall mapping right now? The linux kernel I >guess? Yes. >The elf kernel loader certainly doesn't look like it cares much >about virtual address (other than VIRT_BASE) ... Correct. And the same applies to boot loaders. Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel |
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