[patch 0/3] no MAX_ARG_PAGES -v2
Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:03:34 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.ports.hppa,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.kernel.mm |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
This patch-set aims at removing the current limit on argv+env space aka. MAX_ARG_PAGES. The new mm is created before the binfmt code runs, the stack is placed at the highest address supported by that architecture. The argv+env data is then copied from the old mm into the new mm (which is inactive at that time - this introduces some cache coherency issues). Then we run the binfmt code, which will compute the final stack address. The existing stack will be moved downwards (or upwards on PA-RISC) to the desired place. This 'trick' heavily relies on the MMU, so for no-MMU archs we stay with the old approach. --- Plenty of changes all around, changes listed in the individual patches. We hope to have addressed all issues raised.