linuxolator: amd64 Linux Test Project failures

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel at gmail.com> (Sun, 7 Jan 2007 02:00:16 -0600):

> On 1/6/07, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander at leidinger.net> wrote:
> > Quoting "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel at gmail.com> (Sun, 31 Dec 2006 13:21:27 -0600):
> >
> > > That patch to mmap fixes the problems with mmap on amd64, and brings
> > > the failed LTP testcases closer to the  i386 failed testcases.
> >
> > I committed this with the unconditional addition of PROT_EXEC like we
> > did before. This should fix the LTP tests and keep the behavior as
> > described in the comment as before.
> >
> > I assume you will update the amd64 part in the LTP table in the wiki
> > with the results. I'm looking forward to this.
> >
> Running a full LTP tests right now, and will be updating the table
> when it completes.
> 
> 2.6.16 - 156/831

Yeah, great! Thanks!

> I'm also looking into testing whether PROT_EXEC is needed, just need
> to get a linux java, and a java program installed to test it.  Tried
> using emerge on the gentoo base to install azureus, but it failed as
> it couldn't build binutils-2.16.1-r3 (linux.ko without PROT_EXEC in
> mmap).

If you can build binutils with PROT_EXEC in mmap, we already have a
winner for the PROT_EXEC stuff (= I may MFC this commit next WE).

Bye,
Alexander.

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