Re: [patch] remove MAX_ARG_PAGES
Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.ports.hppa,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.kernel.mm |
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* 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/*.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