From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH 7/24] i386 Vmi memory hole
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:56:17 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060314215616.GM12807@sorel.sous-sol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44166D6B.4090701@vmware.com>
* 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.
thanks,
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-14 21:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-13 18:04 Zachary Amsden
2006-03-14 6:41 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-14 7:14 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-14 21:56 ` Chris Wright [this message]
2006-03-14 22:35 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-15 4:31 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-15 8:27 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-03-15 8:36 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-15 9:09 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-15 9:18 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-15 9:41 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-15 9:27 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-03-15 9:37 ` Zachary Amsden
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