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Bug 1913493

Summary: bmalloc disabled on architectures with 64 KB pages
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Michael Catanzaro <mcatanza>
Component: webkit2gtk3Assignee: Michael Catanzaro <mcatanza>
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Version: 33CC: dan, erack, gnome-sig, mcatanza, tpopela
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Description Michael Catanzaro 2021-01-06 22:58:24 UTC
WebKit's bmalloc is disabled on ppc64le because the architecture uses 64 KB page size. This means all heap security features are disabled.

In RHEL (but not Fedora), it is also disabled on aarch64.