| Date | Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:03:46 +0100 | From | Will Deacon <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 02/36] ipc: Add COMPAT_SHMLBA support |
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On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 06:53:34AM +0100, Jon Masters wrote: > On 07/06/2012 05:05 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > > The reason for this patch is that we want SHMLBA to be 64K on AArch64 > > Presumably this is to obviate differences between 64K or 4K pages?
Right, we don't have D-side aliasing with AArch64 processors, so SHMLBA can be left as the minimum alignment requirement, which is PAGE_SIZE.
The compat bit is more fun because userspace expects to see 16k there.
Will
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