Re: oops w/ 2.5.72+ia64

From: Matthew Wilcox <willy_at_debian.org>
Date: 2003-06-25 05:14:14
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:54:18AM -0700, David Mosberger wrote:
>   Matthew> we tried blaming ssh before and it didn't go over too well
>   Matthew> ;-)
> 
> What was the context?

Pretty much this exact one, only on PA, not on ia64.  We tried to get a
patch into the kernel that would prevent an app from setting the limit to
above 1GB on a Linux/PA kernel.  Linus NAKed it saying tha he wanted apps
to set unlimited and then read back unlimited.  So instead we limit how
large the stack can grow (the minimum of 1GB and the hard stack size).
This was similar to what Martin was trying to do ... unfortunately it
seems to be buggy ;-(

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