On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Timo Teräs wrote: > arch/*/include/asm/elf.h comments say: > ELF_ET_DYN_BASE is the location that an ET_DYN program is loaded > if exec'ed. Typical use of this is to invoke "./ld.so someprog" > to test out a new version of the loader. We need to make sure > that it is out of the way of the program that it will "exec", > and that there is sufficient room for the brk. > > In case we have main application linked as PIE, this can cause > problems as the main program itself is being loaded to this > alternate address. And this allows limited heap size. While > this is inevitable when exec'ing the interpreter directly, > we should do better for PIE applications. Timo, could you please provide more specific example of the breakage scenario you are talking about? It's not completely clear to me from your commit message. Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
