On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:29:05PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: [..] > Preserving the actual PT_LOAD segments p_paddr and p_memsz values is > important. p_offset we can change as much as we want. Which means there > can be logical holes in the file between PT_LOAD segments, where we put > the extra data needed to keep everything page aligned.
Agreed. If one modifies p_paddr then one will have to modify p->vaddr too. And user space tools look at p->vaddr and where is the corresponding physical address. Keeping p_vaddr and p_paddr intact makes sense. Thanks Vivek -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
