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From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: ELF LOAD segments creating holes in the process image on GNU/Linux
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2022 05:40:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMe9rOrn6Xt5gvb07cbRjdmTKV=QYBa5v9PjWYNJr+JvGG8-dA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mtkdhs11.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com>

On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 5:23 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> * H. J. Lu:
>
> >> Ideally?  p_offset, p_vaddr, p_filesz, p_memsz should all be multiples
> >> of the page size, to closer reflect what can actually be loaded.
> >>
> >> Then, for each LOAD segment, p_vaddr plus p_memsz should be equal to
> >> p_vaddr of the next LOAD segment.
> >
> > Filled with zeros?
>
> No, with file contents.  We can't zero-fill at a sub-page granularity.
> There shouldn't be page-sized holes, definitely not for 4K-only targets.

Do you mean padding these segments with zeros in file?


-- 
H.J.

      reply	other threads:[~2022-01-03 13:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-03 12:31 Florian Weimer
2022-01-03 12:45 ` H.J. Lu
2022-01-03 12:49   ` Florian Weimer
2022-01-03 13:04     ` H.J. Lu
2022-01-03 13:14       ` Florian Weimer
2022-01-03 13:18         ` H.J. Lu
2022-01-03 13:23           ` Florian Weimer
2022-01-03 13:40             ` H.J. Lu [this message]

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