Re: [patch] remove MAX_ARG_PAGES

2007-01-02 Thread David Howells
Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: [patch] remove MAX_ARG_PAGES

2007-01-01 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > 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 ;-) > > what is keeping

Re: [patch] remove MAX_ARG_PAGES

2006-12-31 Thread Ollie Wild
On 12/29/06, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: what is keeping this fix from going upstream? There are still a couple outstanding issues which need to be resolved before this is ready for inclusion in the mainline kernel. The main one is support for CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP, which I think i

Re: [patch] remove MAX_ARG_PAGES

2006-12-29 Thread Ingo Molnar
[Cc:-ed Ulrich too] * Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

Re: [patch] remove MAX_ARG_PAGES

2006-12-29 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: [patch] remove MAX_ARG_PAGES

2006-12-29 Thread Linus Torvalds
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

Re: [patch] remove MAX_ARG_PAGES

2006-12-29 Thread Russell King
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 ha

[patch] remove MAX_ARG_PAGES

2006-12-29 Thread Ingo Molnar
g this fix from going upstream? Ingo ------> Subject: [patch] remove MAX_ARG_PAGES From: Ollie Wild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> this patch removes the MAX_ARG_PAGES limit by copying between VMs. This makes process argv/env limited by the stack limit (and it's thus arbitraril