Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: POWER: Unexpected fault when writing to brk-allocated memory | From | Florian Weimer <> | Date | Tue, 7 Nov 2017 12:26:12 +0100 |
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On 11/07/2017 12:15 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>> First of all, using addr and MAP_FIXED to develop our heuristic can >> never really give unchanged ABI. It's an in-band signal. brk() is a >> good example that steadily keeps incrementing address, so depending >> on malloc usage and address space randomization, you will get a brk() >> that ends exactly at 128T, then the next one will be > >> DEFAULT_MAP_WINDOW, and it will switch you to 56 bit address space. > > No, it won't. You will hit stack first.
That's not actually true on POWER in some cases. See the process maps I posted here:
<https://marc.info/?l=linuxppc-embedded&m=150988538106263&w=2>
Thanks, Florian
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