On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 09:37:05AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
The 4*PAGE_SIZE on ARM is an architecture specific oddity, I believe
to work around aliasing caches on ARMv6. As no other architecture does
this, we're probably better off not duplicating it for aarch64-ilp32
and just use sys_shmat as your v6 patch does.
Arnd
If you feel ARMv6 fix for caches will come soon, just ignore it.
Otherwise, please pull it because compat_sys_shmat is broken now
for 64K pages.
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <redacted>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/shmparam.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/shmparam.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/shmparam.h
index 4df608a..e368a55 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/shmparam.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/shmparam.h
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
* alignment value. Since we don't have aliasing D-caches, the rest of
* the time we can safely use PAGE_SIZE.
*/
-#define COMPAT_SHMLBA 0x4000
+#define COMPAT_SHMLBA (4 * PAGE_SIZE)
#include <asm-generic/shmparam.h>
--
2.5.0