From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g64IAGRw012785 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 11:10:16 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.3/Submit) id g64IAGsc012784 for linux-mips-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 11:10:16 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from mx.mips.com (mx.mips.com [206.31.31.226]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id g64IA9Rw012774; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 11:10:09 -0700 Received: from newman.mips.com (ns-dmz [206.31.31.225]) by mx.mips.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g64IE68j004040; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 11:14:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from copfs01.mips.com (copfs01 [192.168.205.101]) by newman.mips.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA08616; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 11:14:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mips.com ([172.18.27.100]) by copfs01.mips.com (8.11.4/8.9.0) with ESMTP id g64IE5b06807; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 20:14:05 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <3D249181.D9147AAE@mips.com> Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 20:18:41 +0200 From: Carsten Langgaard Organization: MIPS Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ralf Baechle CC: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: LTP testing (shmat01) References: <3D246924.542682B2@mips.com> <20020704193414.A29570@dea.linux-mips.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests= version=2.20 X-Spam-Level: Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk 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