mmaping a fixed address fails on ARM

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Thu Jan 13 06:25:52 EST 2011


On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 05:58:01AM +0800, Bryan Wu wrote:
> The implementation of arch_get_unmapped_area() is different from ARM
> and x86, that might makes mmap behavior different between ARM and x86.
> Andre said 2.6.28-versatile. I'm not sure whether it is a regression.

For the same conditions (iow, same mapping) on ARMv7 and ARMv5-only
kernels vs x86 the results will be the same.  On ARMv6-supporting kernels
we have aliasing caches to deal with where we intentionally force the
alignment of non-MAP_FIXED mappings.



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