[PATCH] arm: align shared memory unconditionally to the SHMLBA boundary
Cyrill Gorcunov
gorcunov at gmail.com
Mon Jul 15 13:32:38 EDT 2013
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:11:09AM +0400, Alexander Kartashov wrote:
> Currently IPC SHM works in a strange way on ARM:
> the syscall sys_shmat() requires the argument shmaddr
> be SHMLBA-aligned (ARM has the macro __ARCH_FORCE_SHMLBA
> unconditionally defined) but allocates memory that
> isn't SHMLBA-aligned because the value of memory alignment
> depends on presense of certain cache aliases.
Hi guys, is there some conclusion on this patch? It has been sent
almost 5 months back ;)
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