Bug#757037: liblzop alignment problem

2014-11-12 Thread Marc Kleine-Budde
On 11/12/2014 01:20 AM, Simon McVittie wrote: Control: severity 757037 grave Control: tags 757037 + patch I'm bumping this bug up to grave severity, because it seems it makes this liblzo2 version entirely useless on a fairly common armel CPU (my armel has a Marvell Kirkwood armv5tel, as

Bug#757037: liblzop alignment problem

2014-11-12 Thread Simon McVittie
On 12/11/14 10:51, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote: On 11/12/2014 01:20 AM, Simon McVittie wrote: Translated to debian this mean: armel - unaligned access will silently fail on = ARMv5 (unless configured otherwise in /proc/cpu/alignment) will work if run on = ARMv6, e.g. Raspberry Pi, Beagle Bone

Bug#757037: liblzop alignment problem

2014-11-11 Thread Simon McVittie
Control: severity 757037 grave Control: tags 757037 + patch I'm bumping this bug up to grave severity, because it seems it makes this liblzo2 version entirely useless on a fairly common armel CPU (my armel has a Marvell Kirkwood armv5tel, as used in the SheevaPlug and its derivatives) in the

Bug#757037: liblzop alignment problem

2014-11-09 Thread Marc Kleine-Budde
Hey Simon, indeed it's an alignment problem. On ARM = v5 you cannot access data with unaligned pointers. However you can ask the kernel to fixup that problem, which has a veeery high runtime overhead. This options is switched off by default on debian. You can switch it on via: echo 3 | sudo