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    [SPARC]: Adjust 32-bit ELF_ET_DYN_BASE. · ffe26efd
    David S. Miller authored
    We were using 0x08000000 instead of TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE
    so that running something like "/lib/ld-linux.so.2 emacs"
    would work.
    
    The issue there was that wherever /lib/ld-linux.so.2 gets
    mapped (controlled by ELF_ET_DYN_BASE), that is where the
    BSS start for the process ends up.  Now, emacs allocates
    dynamic memory for LISP objects from the BSS, and needs
    the top 4 bits of the virtual address to be clear so that
    it can encode LISP type and GC marking information there.
    
    But making this obscure emacs case work breaks lots of other
    stuff.  For example, programs with a reasonably large data
    section fail to load via direct ld.so interpreter execution
    because the data section is large enough to begin overlapping
    with the ELF_ET_DYN_BASE area.
    
    The /lib/ld-linux.so.2 emacs case does not work on a lot of
    platforms due to this issue, including i386, so it is not
    worth making work on sparc either.  It is indeed useful
    sometimes when debugging a new experimental build of glibc
    for example, but people doing that can hack the value of
    ELF_ET_DYN_BASE in their kernels.  Perhaps at some point
    we will make a sysctl controllable value.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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