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

[Andy Green]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [fedora-arm] Broken sha512sum in coreutils
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:36:37 +0000
From: Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net>
To: andy at warmcat.com

Andy Green wrote:
> 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.

Yup, that fixes it! :)

So what is the correct/permanent solution to avoid problems like this?

*goes to RTFA* ;)

Gordan

P.S.
Deliberately off-list?