[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1433809] Re: linux build failure seen building 32bit user space support on ppc64el

2015-03-18 Thread Alan Modra
It does seem a bit pointless to be building a 32-bit vdso on powerpc64le where you know there is no 32-bit user runtime. Now if some other part of the kernel needs to be compiled 32-bit, then it would appear that gcc will need to be configured with --enable-targets=powerpcle-linux --disable-multi

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1267062] Re: LTP sigaltstack02 test failure -- MINSIGSTKSZ in userspace missmatches kernel (was: sigaltstack system call unable to send proper return code (error12))

2014-04-14 Thread Alan Modra
This is a stupid testcase, the failure should be ignored. The glibc values for MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ must be large enough to cover all known kernels, so that user programs will run on any kernel and with any usage of vmx, htm and whatever else changes context size. The values in the kernel on