src: use __executable_start for linux hugepages by bnoordhuis · Pull Request #31547 · nodejs/node

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`__executable_start` is provided by GNU's and LLVM's default linker
scripts, obviating the need to plug in a custom linker script.

The problem with our bespoke linker script is that it works with ld.bfd
but not ld.gold and cannot easily be ported because the latter linker
doesn't understand the `INSERT BEFORE` directive.

The /proc/self/maps scanner is updated to account for the fact that
there are a number of sections between `&__executable_start` and
the start of the .text section.

Fortunately, those sections are all mapped into the same memory segment
so we only need to look at the next line to find the start of our text
segment.

Fixes: nodejs#31520

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addaleax pushed a commit that referenced this pull request

Feb 1, 2020
`__executable_start` is provided by GNU's and LLVM's default linker
scripts, obviating the need to plug in a custom linker script.

The problem with our bespoke linker script is that it works with ld.bfd
but not ld.gold and cannot easily be ported because the latter linker
doesn't understand the `INSERT BEFORE` directive.

The /proc/self/maps scanner is updated to account for the fact that
there are a number of sections between `&__executable_start` and
the start of the .text section.

Fortunately, those sections are all mapped into the same memory segment
so we only need to look at the next line to find the start of our text
segment.

Fixes: #31520

PR-URL: #31547
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Gus Caplan <me@gus.host>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>

bnoordhuis added a commit to bnoordhuis/io.js that referenced this pull request

Feb 2, 2020
The test starts child processes. A recent change is suspected of causing
flaky crashes on one of the alpine buildbots but we can't know for sure
because the test hides the child's stderr.

Refs: nodejs#31547 (comment)

addaleax pushed a commit that referenced this pull request

Feb 2, 2020
The test starts child processes. A recent change is suspected of causing
flaky crashes on one of the alpine buildbots but we can't know for sure
because the test hides the child's stderr.

Refs: #31547 (comment)

PR-URL: #31612
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>

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codebytere pushed a commit that referenced this pull request

Feb 17, 2020
`__executable_start` is provided by GNU's and LLVM's default linker
scripts, obviating the need to plug in a custom linker script.

The problem with our bespoke linker script is that it works with ld.bfd
but not ld.gold and cannot easily be ported because the latter linker
doesn't understand the `INSERT BEFORE` directive.

The /proc/self/maps scanner is updated to account for the fact that
there are a number of sections between `&__executable_start` and
the start of the .text section.

Fortunately, those sections are all mapped into the same memory segment
so we only need to look at the next line to find the start of our text
segment.

Fixes: #31520

PR-URL: #31547
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Gus Caplan <me@gus.host>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>

codebytere pushed a commit that referenced this pull request

Feb 17, 2020
The test starts child processes. A recent change is suspected of causing
flaky crashes on one of the alpine buildbots but we can't know for sure
because the test hides the child's stderr.

Refs: #31547 (comment)

PR-URL: #31612
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>

gabrielschulhof pushed a commit to gabrielschulhof/node that referenced this pull request

Mar 6, 2020
`__executable_start` is provided by GNU's and LLVM's default linker
scripts, obviating the need to plug in a custom linker script.

The problem with our bespoke linker script is that it works with ld.bfd
but not ld.gold and cannot easily be ported because the latter linker
doesn't understand the `INSERT BEFORE` directive.

The /proc/self/maps scanner is updated to account for the fact that
there are a number of sections between `&__executable_start` and
the start of the .text section.

Fortunately, those sections are all mapped into the same memory segment
so we only need to look at the next line to find the start of our text
segment.

Fixes: nodejs#31520

PR-URL: nodejs#31547
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Gus Caplan <me@gus.host>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>

gabrielschulhof pushed a commit to gabrielschulhof/node that referenced this pull request

Apr 9, 2020
`__executable_start` is provided by GNU's and LLVM's default linker
scripts, obviating the need to plug in a custom linker script.

The problem with our bespoke linker script is that it works with ld.bfd
but not ld.gold and cannot easily be ported because the latter linker
doesn't understand the `INSERT BEFORE` directive.

The /proc/self/maps scanner is updated to account for the fact that
there are a number of sections between `&__executable_start` and
the start of the .text section.

Fortunately, those sections are all mapped into the same memory segment
so we only need to look at the next line to find the start of our text
segment.

Fixes: nodejs#31520

PR-URL: nodejs#31547
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Gus Caplan <me@gus.host>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>

targos pushed a commit to targos/node that referenced this pull request

Apr 25, 2020
`__executable_start` is provided by GNU's and LLVM's default linker
scripts, obviating the need to plug in a custom linker script.

The problem with our bespoke linker script is that it works with ld.bfd
but not ld.gold and cannot easily be ported because the latter linker
doesn't understand the `INSERT BEFORE` directive.

The /proc/self/maps scanner is updated to account for the fact that
there are a number of sections between `&__executable_start` and
the start of the .text section.

Fortunately, those sections are all mapped into the same memory segment
so we only need to look at the next line to find the start of our text
segment.

Fixes: nodejs#31520

Backport-PR-URL: nodejs#32092
PR-URL: nodejs#31547
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Gus Caplan <me@gus.host>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>

targos pushed a commit to targos/node that referenced this pull request

Apr 25, 2020
The test starts child processes. A recent change is suspected of causing
flaky crashes on one of the alpine buildbots but we can't know for sure
because the test hides the child's stderr.

Refs: nodejs#31547 (comment)

PR-URL: nodejs#31612
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>

targos pushed a commit that referenced this pull request

Apr 28, 2020
`__executable_start` is provided by GNU's and LLVM's default linker
scripts, obviating the need to plug in a custom linker script.

The problem with our bespoke linker script is that it works with ld.bfd
but not ld.gold and cannot easily be ported because the latter linker
doesn't understand the `INSERT BEFORE` directive.

The /proc/self/maps scanner is updated to account for the fact that
there are a number of sections between `&__executable_start` and
the start of the .text section.

Fortunately, those sections are all mapped into the same memory segment
so we only need to look at the next line to find the start of our text
segment.

Fixes: #31520

Backport-PR-URL: #32092
PR-URL: #31547
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Gus Caplan <me@gus.host>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>

targos pushed a commit that referenced this pull request

Apr 28, 2020
The test starts child processes. A recent change is suspected of causing
flaky crashes on one of the alpine buildbots but we can't know for sure
because the test hides the child's stderr.

Refs: #31547 (comment)

PR-URL: #31612
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>