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Re: Question about prelink address layout
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Maxim Kuvyrkov
On 5/02/2013, at 12:13 AM, jiji vinitha wrote:
> Hi,
> Sorry if its not proper to ask here.
> I have question regarding prelink virtual space address layout .
> I am using prelink in an arm linux environment.
> I can see that prelink virtual memory slot is fixed in the prelink
> source code(arch-arm.c) ie, 0x41000000-0x50000000 for arm.
> With this, prelinking was working fine for me with kernel
> configurations (CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G = y and CONFIG_VMSPLIT_2G = y).
> But when I changed my kernel configuration to CONFIG_VMSPLIT_1G=y, I
> find that prelink checking is failed at runtime, because prelink
> expects the libaries to be loaded at 0x41xxxxxx and it is not possible
> to mmap in this address range in 1G/3G configuarion.
> Is this virtual space address layout is fixed in prelink or can it be
> configurable ?
> Regards,
> Vinitha