On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 16:43 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Didn't we lift the limit to 30,000 tasks at some point? The comment > in linux/threads.h mentions that the PID space goes up to 4 million. > What does actually happen when we increase pid_max to beyond 32768 > on those systems and try to use them? Is there another limit in place?
Well, the mm context allocator for hash based CPUs cannot hand out more than 32767 contexts. I suspect it's just going to spin in init_new_context. I could make it fail instead... Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
