On 01/07/2011 04:50 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote: > Gordan Bobic wrote: >> Andy Green wrote: >>> On 01/07/11 16:15, Somebody in the thread at some point said: >>> >>>> [root@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? That was a fantastic piece of detective work! This must be a bug in sha512sum -- it shouldn't be affected by alignment. Andrew _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
