[fedora-arm] Fwd: Re: Broken sha512sum in coreutils

[Andy Green]

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Subject: Re: [fedora-arm] Broken sha512sum in coreutils
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:29:26 +0000
From: Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com>
Reply-To: andy at warmcat.com
To: Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net>

On 01/07/11 16:15, Somebody in the thread at some point said:

> [root at 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.

-Andy