On 11/07/2017 12:44 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 12:26:12PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> On 11/07/2017 12:15 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>>
>>>> First of all, using addr and MAP_FIXED to develop our heuristic can
>>>> never really give unchanged ABI. It's an in-band signal. brk() is a
>>>> good example that steadily keeps incrementing address, so depending
>>>> on malloc usage and address space randomization, you will get a brk()
>>>> that ends exactly at 128T, then the next one will be >
>>>> DEFAULT_MAP_WINDOW, and it will switch you to 56 bit address space.
>>>
>>> No, it won't. You will hit stack first.
>>
>> That's not actually true on POWER in some cases.  See the process maps I
>> posted here:
>>
>>    <https://marc.info/?l=linuxppc-embedded&m=150988538106263&w=2>
> 
> Hm? I see that in all three cases the [stack] is the last mapping.
> Do I miss something?

Hah, I had not noticed.  Occasionally, the order of heap and stack is 
reversed.  This happens in approximately 15% of the runs.

See the attached example.

Thanks,
Florian