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Re: [PATCH] [BZ #10283] localedef: align fixed maps to SHMLBA
- From: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>
- To: carlos at redhat dot com
- Cc: vapier at gentoo dot org, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 18:09:38 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] [BZ #10283] localedef: align fixed maps to SHMLBA
- References: <1369327649-906-1-git-send-email-vapier at gentoo dot org> <519EA212 dot 6020508 at redhat dot com>
From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 19:11:14 -0400
> Which says that the kernel and glibc values for SHMLBA don't
> match.
>
> We need correct SHMLBA values in order to ensure that the kernel
> will be less likely to return EINVAL for an mmap with a fixed
> address.
I've made sure that, for sparc, libc will use a value at least as
large as the kernel will.