Re: Crash when memset of shared mapped memory in ARM

[Dave Martin]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:54:35AM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 08:45:47AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
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> For what it's worth, I was brave/daft enough to compile and run the testcase
> with an -rc1 kernel and Linaro 11.09 filesystem on the quad A9 Versatile
> Express:
> 
> root@dancing-fool:~# ./yad
> mmap: addr 0x20000000
> root@dancing-fool:~# ./yad
> shm_open: File exists
> mmap: addr 0x20000000
> 
> Looks like I'm missing the fireworks, despite the weirdy MAP_SHARED |
> MAP_FIXED mmap flags.

I did't see any problem on a random 3.1-rc4 kernel either on A9...

(Since when was MAP_SHARED "weirdy"...?)

Cheers
---Dave
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