Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Elf loader fixes

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx>]

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?  The elf kernel loader certainly doesn't look like it cares much
about virtual address (other than VIRT_BASE) ...

cheers,

  Gerd

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