14 Sep
2016
14 Sep
'16
12:19 a.m.
On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 19:10:13 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote:
I'm not exactly sure about any of that though. If I look at some maps files, there always seems to be one of these ---p regions somewhere in the middle of each shared library.
I found this:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/226283/shared-library-mappings-in-pr...
It says the private only pages are gaps between readonly and readwrite to get aligned to a page boundary.
Did the new kernel change the default page size so the gaps need to be bigger now? (You'd think most of the universe would panic if the page size changed from 4K though :-).