linux mmap bug ? not filling in allocation gaps
Mike McCormack
mike at codeweavers.com
Wed Mar 22 02:31:23 CST 2006
Geoff Brimhall wrote:
> Wrote a test mmap binary to fill a process address
> space, it created a similar gap between the executable
> load address and the loaded shared libraries,
> eventually failing mmap calls when it hit the stack
> address space. When I updated the test app to
> explicitly mmap in the gap area via specifying the
> aligned start address, the mmap call succeeded.
>
> I can't be the first person to notice this. Are there
> any TODO solutions for this ?
Wine's holey memory map has been discussed before:
http://www.winehq.com/pipermail/wine-devel/2006-February/044979.html
The "truely correct" solution is probably to implement Windows
compatible memory allocation in the Linux kernel, but there's other
hacks that could be done in user space. Just a matter of finding
something that Alexandre is willing to live with.
A preload-ish type thing that overrode libc's mmap/munmap calls seems
pausible to me.
Mike
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