Hi! I'm currently trying to fix Firefox 46 on sparc64 which is segfaulting due to issues with memory allocation in JavaScript. The issue is a bit odd and involves some of the magic involved in Firefox' JavaScript engine which packs additional type information into pointers.
The resulting problem is that the pointer of the memory allocated with mmap must have its upper 17 bits clear as otherwise the JavaScript engine will crash. This has been previously fixed on ia64/Linux [1] and NetBSD/sparc64 [2]. I have been playing with the code and tried to implement the fix used in [1] and [2] but since mmap on sparc64 on Linux behaves differently as compared to NetBSD [3], the fix is not directly usable. As demonstrated in [3], the hint used for mmap will only work once and on consecutive calls, it's completely ignored which means a pointer is again return which won't have the upper bits cleared. This is the case for Linux at least on amd64 and sparc64 and it seems to have been introduced in 2003 around Linux 2.4.10 [4]. Thus, does anybody know if there is a clever way to get mmap to allocate memory near the region suggested by the hint so we can be sure that the 17 upper bits are always clear on sparc64? Thanks, Adrian > [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589735 > [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=994133 > [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=824449#22 > [4] https://lkml.org/lkml/2003/5/20/64 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
