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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Carsten Langgaard <carstenl@mips.com>
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: LTP testing (shmat01)
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 19:34:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020704193414.A29570@dea.linux-mips.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D246924.542682B2@mips.com>; from carstenl@mips.com on Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 05:26:28PM +0200

On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 05:26:28PM +0200, Carsten Langgaard wrote:

> The LTP test shmat01 fails on MIPS, because SHMLBA is defined to 0x40000
> (in include/asm-mips/shmparam.h).
> For all other architectures SHMLBA is defined to PAGE_SIZE, does anyone
> know why we are different ?

Sounds like a broken test.  The value of SHMLBA is ABI mandated.  Technically
we could use any power of 2 >= 32kB easily and with plenty of headache
any power of 2 > PAGE_SIZE.

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-04 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-04 15:26 LTP testing (shmat01) Carsten Langgaard
2002-07-04 17:34 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2002-07-04 18:18   ` Carsten Langgaard
2002-07-04 19:56     ` Ralf Baechle
2002-07-05  6:30       ` Carsten Langgaard
2002-07-05 14:37         ` Ralf Baechle
2002-07-08 17:31       ` Jun Sun
2002-07-08 17:45         ` Ralf Baechle
2002-07-08 18:13           ` Carsten Langgaard
2002-07-08 18:29             ` PATCH: Fix SHMLBA for mips (Re: LTP testing (shmat01)) H. J. Lu
2002-07-08 18:33               ` Ralf Baechle
2002-07-09  6:11               ` Carsten Langgaard
2002-07-09  6:34               ` Andreas Jaeger
2002-07-10  6:57               ` Ulrich Drepper

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