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From: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
To: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: [LTP] [PATCH] Fix mmap01 testcase on hppa architecture
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 07:18:35 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2130257221.33914320.1497352715953.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170609145328.GA7129@ls3530>



----- Original Message -----
> The mmap() syscall to map a file at any given page-aligned address (via the
> MAP_FIXED flag) can fail on the hppa architecture due to cache colouring
> requirements of the architecture.
> 
> This patch drops the MAP_FIXED flag and thus maps the file instead at
> some convenient address based on the hint as given by the addr
> parameter.

It looks like we don't need addr at all. Test is remapping part
of heap with MAP_FIXED, which looks risky. I'd drop that page
initialisation inside heap too. Now, without MAP_FIXED, it's
just completely unrelated page. What do you think?

Regards,
Jan


  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-13 11:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-09 14:53 [LTP] [PATCH] Fix mmap01 testcase on hppa architecture Helge Deller
2017-06-13 11:18 ` Jan Stancek [this message]
2017-06-16 13:55   ` Helge Deller
2017-06-16 14:03     ` Jan Stancek

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