From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ollie Wild <aaw@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [patch] remove MAX_ARG_PAGES
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 22:57:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061229215714.GA21694@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061229204904.GI20596@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
* Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 09:03:57PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > FYI, i have forward ported your MAX_ARG_PAGES limit removal patch to
> > 2.6.20-rc2 and have included it in the -rt kernel. It's working great -
> > i can now finally do a "ls -t patches/*.patch" in my patch repository -
> > something i havent been able to do for years ;-)
>
> How do the various autoconf stuff react to this? Eg, I notice the
> following in various configure scripts:
>
> checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768
yes, that's how libtool works, it goes from 32K downwards to figure out
a maximum. I dont see a problem there.
you can find a few other variants at:
http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=%22checking+the+maximum+length+of+command+line+arguments%22&hl=en&btnG=Search+Code
worst-case the test-command would get a segfault from the default stack
limit. (8MB on Fedora)
Ingo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-29 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-11 0:05 Removing MAX_ARG_PAGES (request for comments/assistance) Ollie Wild
2006-10-11 8:00 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-11 17:13 ` Ollie Wild
2006-10-11 13:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-10-11 21:48 ` Ollie Wild
2006-10-24 17:48 ` Ollie Wild
2006-12-29 20:03 ` [patch] remove MAX_ARG_PAGES Ingo Molnar
2006-12-29 20:49 ` Russell King
2006-12-29 21:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-29 22:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-12-29 21:57 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-01-01 6:51 ` Ollie Wild
2007-01-01 6:58 ` Ollie Wild
2007-01-01 17:28 ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-02 18:18 ` David Howells
2007-01-02 17:52 ` Removing MAX_ARG_PAGES (request for comments/assistance) David Howells
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