tim at home work and in between.

using mapfiles to lay program segments out. If you were writing an application from scratch and wanted to make sure your program segments were aligned for large pages you could compile it with a mapfile like this..

cc  -M mapfile   -o test1 test1.c

where map file looks like ..

data = A0x400000;
text = A0x400000;
bss = A0x400000;

and  test1 looks like

---

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>

const char *foo[1024] =  {"hello"};

int
main( int argc, char *argv[]) {

pause();
}

---

so how can we check what went where..

./test1 &
[1]     98

 pmap -xs 98
98:     ./test1
 Address  Kbytes     RSS    Anon  Locked Pgsz Mode   Mapped File
00400000       8       8       -       -   8K r-x--  test1
00800000      16      16       8       -   8K rwx--  test1
00C00000       8       8       8       -   8K rwx--    [ heap ]
C4080000     224     224       -       -   8K r-x--  libc.so.1
....
so we have
read only text and readonly data in a segment at 00400000
and the read/write data at 00800000 and the bss segment starting
at 00c00000 just as we wanted.

the const char * declation for foo ensures that the storage for "hello" is in the read only section with the text and the pointer is in the read/write data segment.

or
 nm -fx test1 | egrep "bss|text|data"
[38]    |0x00c00000|0x00000000|OBJT |LOCL |0    |18     |Bbss.bss
[34]    |0x00c00000|0x00000000|NOTY |LOCL |0    |18     |Bbss.bss
[39]    |0x008010b8|0x00000000|OBJT |LOCL |0    |17     |Ddata.data
[35]    |0x00801088|0x00000000|NOTY |LOCL |0    |17     |Ddata.data
[40]    |0x00400ed4|0x00000000|OBJT |LOCL |0    |13     |Drodata.rodata
[36]    |0x00400ed4|0x00000000|NOTY |LOCL |0    |13     |Drodata.rodata
[55]    |0x00c00000|0x00000000|OBJT |GLOB |0    |17     |_edata
[63]    |0x00400ede|0x00000000|OBJT |GLOB |0    |14     |_etext

so we can see the text and read only rodata in first segment, data in the next and bss in the next.

so now if I run test1 under ppgsize thus

    1299  ppgsz -o heap=4m,anon=4m,stack=4m ./test1
      1300  ./test1
enoexec ksh: pmap -xs 1300
1300:   ./test1
 Address  Kbytes     RSS    Anon  Locked Pgsz Mode   Mapped File
00400000       8       8       -       -   8K r-x--  test1
00800000      16      16       8       -   8K rwx--  test1
00C00000    4096    4096    4096       -   4M rwx--    [ heap ]
C4080000     224     224       -       -   8K r-x--  libc.so.1
C40B8000      32      32       -       -    - r-x--  libc.so.1

a 4m heap for all of the heap, now we just need to get the text and data into 4m pages  or try and get the rodata section into its own segment.