linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 09/19] unwind: Introduce sframe user space unwinding

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Message-ID: <20241101190908.GV29862@gate.crashing.org>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2024 14:09:08 -0500
From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 09/19] unwind: Introduce sframe user space unwinding

On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 04:03:13PM -0700, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> Personally I find the idea of a single 4GB+ text segment pretty
> surprising as I've never seen anything even close to that.

It is pretty common I'm afraid.

> Actually I just double checked and even the kernel's ELF loader assumes
> that each executable has only a single text start+end address pair.

Huh?  What makes you think that?  There can be many executable PT_LOAD
segments in each and every binary.


Segher