From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:23:35 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [patch] remove MAX_ARG_PAGES In-Reply-To: <20061229204904.GI20596@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: References: <65dd6fd50610101705t3db93a72sc0847cd120aa05d3@mail.gmail.com> <1160572460.2006.79.camel@taijtu> <65dd6fd50610111448q7ff210e1nb5f14917c311c8d4@mail.gmail.com> <65dd6fd50610241048h24af39d9ob49c3816dfe1ca64@mail.gmail.com> <20061229200357.GA5940@elte.hu> <20061229204904.GI20596@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Russell King Cc: Ingo Molnar , Ollie Wild , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, Arjan van de Ven , linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, David Howells , Peter Zijlstra List-ID: On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Russell King wrote: > > Suggest you test (eg) a rebuild of libX11 to see how it reacts to > this patch. Also: please rebuild "xargs" and install first. Otherwise, a lot of build script etc that use "xargs" won't ever trigger the new limits (or lack thereof), because xargs will have been installed with some old limits. Perhaps more worrying is if compiling xargs under a new kernel then means that it won't work correctly under an old one. Linus -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org