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Message-ID: <54833BAF.1030405@suse.de> Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 18:23:59 +0100 From: Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de> To: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com> CC: "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@....com>, Michael Matz <matz@...e.de> Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: Enable CONFIG_COMPAT also for 64k page size On 04.12.14 19:20, Will Deacon wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 03:46:33PM +0000, Alexander Graf wrote: >> With binutils 2.25 the default alignment for 32bit arm sections changed to >> have everything 64k aligned. Armv7 binaries built with this binutils version >> run successfully on an arm64 system. >> >> Since effectively there is now the chance to run armv7 code on arm64 even >> with 64k page size, it doesn't make sense to block people from enabling >> CONFIG_COMPAT on those configurations. > > Is there a distro available that is built with a recent enough binutils for > this? I'd really like to run our regression tests to check that page-size > assumptions don't exist for things like shm. So how much of a distro do you need? I could probably assemble a simple very minimalistic rootfs with only bash if that helps. Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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