-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [fedora-arm] Broken sha512sum in coreutils Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:36:37 +0000 From: Gordan Bobic <gor...@bobich.net> To: a...@warmcat.com
Andy Green wrote: > On 01/07/11 16:15, Somebody in the thread at some point said: > >> [r...@sheeva ~]# cat /proc/cpu/alignment >> User: 12230853 >> System: 1 >> Skipped: 0 >> Half: 0 >> Word: 0 >> DWord: 1 >> Multi: 0 >> User faults: 0 (ignored) > > I wrote about the alignment issue here on ARM: > > http://warmcat.com/_wp/2007/05/25/the-alignment-monster/ > > If I understood it, you have a bazillion alignment faults in your user > code that aren't being fixed up, which will cause exactly this kind of > symptom with sha512sum. > > Try > > echo 2 > /proc/cpu/alignment > > (take care to keep the spaces as shown) and try the tests again. Yup, that fixes it! :) So what is the correct/permanent solution to avoid problems like this? *goes to RTFA* ;) Gordan P.S. Deliberately off-list? _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
