Question: sighand_cache is bigger than a page ( it has 4120 byte) on MIPS64

DISCUSSION Johannes Dickgreber 2 participants 2 messages Sep 24, 2007 MIPS

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Johannes Dickgreber

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2007-09-24 18:53 UTC #0 lore raw

im running MIPS64 kernel on a SGI Octane with 1GByte.

The cache is that big, because _NSIG on Mips is set to 128. On all other arch it is only set to 64.
Could MIPS use the lower Value ?

bye tanzy

Ralf Baechle

2007-09-24 18:57 UTC #1 lore raw

Quoted 5 lines · Johannes Dickgreber

im running MIPS64 kernel on a SGI Octane with 1GByte.
The cache is that big, because _NSIG on Mips is set to 128. On all other arch it is only set to 64.
Could MIPS use the lower Value ?

One of the historical sins. Not easy to fix because it would break binary compatibility.

Ralf