From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: JIT emulator needs
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:44:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1182447884.2704.7.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <787b0d920706072335v10d6025cwe1437194b6c60d84@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 02:35 -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> Right now, Linux isn't all that friendly to JIT emulators.
> Here are the problems and suggestions to improve the situation.
>
> There is an SE Linux execmem restriction that enforces W^X.
> Assuming you don't wish to just disable SE Linux, there are
> two ugly ways around the problem. You can mmap a file twice,
> or you can abuse SysV shared memory. The mmap method requires
> that you know of a filesystem mounted rw,exec where you can
> write a very large temporary file. This arbitrary filesystem,
> rather than swap space, will be the backing store. The SysV
> shared memory method requires an undocumented flag and is
> subject to some annoying size limits. Both methods create
> objects that will fail to be deleted if the program dies
> before marking the objects for deletion.
and these methods also destroy yourself on any machine with a looser
cache coherency between I and D-cache....
for all but x86 you pretty much have to do the mprotect() between the
two states to deal with the cache flushing properly...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-21 17:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-08 6:35 JIT emulator needs Albert Cahalan
2007-06-08 7:09 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-06-09 4:12 ` Albert Cahalan
2007-06-08 11:10 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-08 16:35 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-06-09 5:17 ` Albert Cahalan
2007-06-09 20:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-19 15:08 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-06-20 3:16 ` Albert Cahalan
2007-06-20 16:01 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-06-20 16:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-20 17:54 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-06-20 18:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-20 18:25 ` Albert Cahalan
2007-06-20 18:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-21 3:21 ` Albert Cahalan
2007-06-21 3:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-21 7:38 ` Albert Cahalan
2007-06-20 18:43 ` Albert Cahalan
2007-06-23 3:52 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-06-24 4:14 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-06-21 17:44 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2007-06-22 5:56 ` Albert Cahalan
2007-06-22 13:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-22 14:32 ` Albert Cahalan
2007-06-22 14:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-23 2:30 ` Albert Cahalan
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[not found] ` <8xYTM-3So-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-06-21 11:08 ` Bodo Eggert
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