On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 10:08:48AM +0200, Maxime Villard wrote: > >IIRC some software relies on this feature, like emulators/wine. If > >really so then something like a sysctl to allow it again would be helpful. > > I thought about that. The only emulator-related problem I found is [1], > because HardenedBSD too increased VM_MIN_ADDRESS [2] to 64k - like Windows. > I know that OSX too has increased the limit, but I don't know the exact > value. > > It is not possible to keep a sysctl, since VM_MIN_ADDRESS is a constant > used in assembly, so it won't be turned to a variable.
...so at the risk of stirring up more trouble, I'll stick my oar in: why should this be happening anywhere near anything written in assembly? Any VM_MINUSER_ADDRESS should be handled in MI uvm code when mappings are established. > I will commit [3] soon. Please don't yet. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org