[PATCH v8 3/6] elf: Introduce _dl_map_segment_align hook for segment alignment tuning

[H.J. Lu]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 5:06 AM Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com> wrote:
>
> Hi HJ,
>
> > Unless the first R segment is bigger than 2MB,  we need to align from the
> > file offset 0 anyway.   That is what my proposal does.
>
> But it doesn't, that's my issue. It would be perfectly fine to generalize Rui's patch

What did you mean by "doesn't"?

> to remove the condition that the R+X segment must start at zero offset and check

The easiest way to implement it is to combine R + RX segments in one segment
from the file offset 0.  We only need 1 load, instead of 2.

> any segment before it is contiguous and R.
>
> Merging R with R+W should be done in the linker.
>
> Cheers,
> Wilco



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H.J.