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= Userspace =
The userspace virtual address space has 38 bits. It seems that when the IPC protocol was designed, it was only 36 bits leading to a weird encoding format.
There are several regions maintained by the kernel, each one starting at the upper bits bit37-21 randomized:
* Main binary region.
* Heap region.
* Stack mapping region, available from [[SVC#svcGetInfo]].
For the stack mapping region, the userland randomizes a page-offset where to start inside the region.
This adds some additional entropy.
Binaries mapped by RO seems to be mapped randomly everywhere in the entire address space.
The userspace virtual address space has 38 bits. It seems that when the IPC protocol was designed, it was only 36 bits leading to a weird encoding format.
There are several regions maintained by the kernel, each one starting at the upper bits bit37-21 randomized:
* Main binary region.
* Heap region.
* Stack mapping region, available from [[SVC#svcGetInfo]].
For the stack mapping region, the userland randomizes a page-offset where to start inside the region.
This adds some additional entropy.
Binaries mapped by RO seems to be mapped randomly everywhere in the entire address space.