Re: [PATCH] ld.so on FC7 is mmap'ing shared libraries right inover guest memory.

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Thu Aug 09 2007 - 10:51:09 EST


On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 21:07 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> From: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> [ FC7 maps shared libraries very low, where the launcher maps guest's
> physical memory. Quick fix is to link Launcher static, real fix is for
> 2.6.24. ]
>
> -static is a simple fix. I expect this problem will be more common than we
> like, as different distro's make different "improvements" to ld.so


this description is incorrect; it's not an ld.so change that causes the
low mapping.

It's a command line option to the prelink program (which is in most
distributions) that makes it use the entire address space, not just the
higher bits....



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