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W^X in MIT Scheme
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Taylor R Campbell |
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W^X in MIT Scheme |
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Sat, 10 Dec 2022 14:59:01 +0000 |
I started drafting a change to support W^X, which would let MIT Scheme
run natively on Apple Silicon, as well as avoid hacks like paxctl to
disable W^X protections on modern x86 systems.
The quick summary of the approach is to move compiled code blocks,
once constructed, into separately mmapped regions with PROT_EXEC but
not PROT_WRITE permission; the garbage collector manages these regions
with a simple mark & sweep process interleaved in the stop & copy
approach used for the main heap.
I haven't finished it, but if anyone's interested in taking it up, I
sketched some details of the approach in the commit message on the WIP
change I just pushed to the new wx branch here:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/mit-scheme.git/commit/?h=wx&id=0a6ca0e12df7f722783e1d1a4235af8bad5b8166
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