From: Carsten Langgaard <carstenl@mips.com>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: LTP testing (shmat01)
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 20:18:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D249181.D9147AAE@mips.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020704193414.A29570@dea.linux-mips.net
Ralf Baechle wrote:
> 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.
Ok, I see, but is there any reason for us to be different than the rest of the
world ?
>
> Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-04 18:10 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
2002-07-04 18:18 ` Carsten Langgaard [this message]
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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