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authorLuke Shumaker <lukeshu@parabola.nu>2017-12-28 13:08:12 -0500
committerLaurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>2018-03-13 15:04:01 +0100
commit8c17d862b3cefed23a62c4e09d4b3f1f04a38631 (patch)
tree64e581e032a98931606dc2e0f3d11970eb2cd9bc /linux-user
parentaac362e46f13305fd9b4abfe7d0068595d4555f2 (diff)
downloadqemu-8c17d862b3cefed23a62c4e09d4b3f1f04a38631.tar.gz
linux-user: init_guest_space: Add a comment about search strategy
Signed-off-by: Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@parabola.nu> Message-Id: <20171228180814.9749-10-lukeshu@lukeshu.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
Diffstat (limited to 'linux-user')
-rw-r--r--linux-user/elfload.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/linux-user/elfload.c b/linux-user/elfload.c
index 5c64299961..9d10a5f592 100644
--- a/linux-user/elfload.c
+++ b/linux-user/elfload.c
@@ -1910,6 +1910,10 @@ unsigned long init_guest_space(unsigned long host_start,
* happen often. Probably means we got unlucky and host
* address space randomization put a shared library somewhere
* inconvenient.
+ *
+ * This is probably a good strategy if host_start, but is
+ * probably a bad strategy if not, which means we got here
+ * because of trouble with ARM commpage setup.
*/
munmap((void *)real_start, real_size);
current_start += qemu_host_page_size;