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Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:38:24 -0700
From: "Gordon Farquharson" <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com>
To: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@osdl.org>
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On 12/27/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Gordon Farquharson wrote:
> >
> > I don't think so. I did reduce the target size
> >
> > #define TARGETSIZE (100 << 12)
>
> That's just 400kB!
>
> There's no way you should see corruption with that kind of value. It
> should all stay solidly in the cache.
>
> Is this perhaps with ARM nommu or something else strange? It may be that
> the program just doesn't work at all if mmap() is faked out with a malloc
> or similar.

Definitely a question for the ARM gurus. I'm out of my depth.

Gordon

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Gordon Farquharson