Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:56:17 -0800 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: [RFC, PATCH 7/24] i386 Vmi memory hole |
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* Zachary Amsden (zach@vmware.com) wrote: > Allow creation of an compile time hole at the top of linear address space. > > Extended to allow a dynamic hole in linear address space, 7/2005. This > required some serious hacking to get everything perfect, but the end result > appears to function quite nicely. Everyone can now share the appreciation > of pseudo-undocumented ELF OS fields, which means core dumps, debuggers > and even broken or obsolete linkers may continue to work.
Thanks. Gerd did something similar (although I believe it's simpler, don't recall the relocation magic) for Xen. Either way, it's useful from Xen perspective.
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