David 'Digit' Turner 23363ed750 linker: avoid mapping the whole library before load.
This patch changes the load_library() function in the
dynamic linker to avoid reserving a huge read-only
address-space range just to read the ELF header and
program header (which are typically very small and easily
fit in the first page).

Instead, we use the functions in linker_phdr.c to only
load the data that we need in a temporary mmap-allocated
page of memory, which we release when the function exits.

This avoids issues when loading very large libraries, or
simply debug versions that only need to load a tiny percentage
of their overall file content in RAM.

Change-Id: Id3a189fad2119a870a1b3d43dd81380c54ea6044
2012-06-25 11:52:40 +02:00
2010-03-08 18:04:02 -08:00
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