On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 10:58:41AM +0100, Eric Botcazou wrote:
> > Is the size of the virtual address space hole constant though (and will it
> > remain constant)?
>
> The kernel sources say that it's constant and with this position for SPARC-T4
> and later. It's different (larger hole) for SPARC-T3 and earlier but I
> cannot
> really test. I don't think that it will change for a given processor.
>
> > E.g. on powerpc64 or aarch64 there are in each case like 4-5 different VA
> > size configurations over the last 10+ years of kernel history and
> > configuration options and fortunately all that is hidden inside of libasan,
> > if you have older gcc and run into an unsupported VA configuration, all it
> > takes is update libasan to one that supports it and binaries continue to
> > work.
>
> But a few targets have hardcoded VA size in TARGET_ASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET too.
It actually is something that works with all the VA sizes that are
supported.
Jakub
