On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 16:49 -0700, Luck, Tony wrote: > > In order to solve this, I added a STACK_TOP_MAX macro for each arch and > > use that. This made IA64 boot properly. > > Yes. Patches apply to 2.6.21 cleanly, build cleanly and boot for me too. > I can even run: > > $ ls -lrt `find /usr/share -type f -print` > > on the new kernel (thats 48020 files for a total of 2.3MB of args). > > > The second patch makes the compat stuff compile, untested though, as I > > have no idea how that works on ia64. > > Not so good on this part. Running an ia32 binary on this patched kernel > just hung my system :-(
I just tried this on an Altix from the test lab, and ia32 bash just started. native 64 bit gave this: $ ls `find / -xdev -type f` | wc 1 89847 4200288 but the 32 bit bash kept complaining about his arg list being too long. This might be a 32->64 issue (/bin/ls is 64 bit after all - and I couldn't find a 32 bit ls in the compat packages), but I really don't know. Will look into this. The difference I had with what I posted last is below; these changes were just me cleaning up. (and fixing one bug on STACK_GROWS_UP introduced by the previous patches - but AFAIK that is not relevant to ia64) Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/exec.c | 15 ++++++--------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6-2/fs/exec.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-2.orig/fs/exec.c 2007-05-24 09:15:54.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6-2/fs/exec.c 2007-05-24 09:41:49.000000000 +0200 @@ -532,26 +532,23 @@ int setup_arg_pages(struct linux_binprm stack_base = current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_STACK].rlim_max; if (stack_base > (1 << 30)) stack_base = 1 << 30; - stack_base = PAGE_ALIGN(stack_top - stack_base); /* Make sure we didn't let the argument array grow too large. */ if (vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start > stack_base) return -ENOMEM; + stack_base = PAGE_ALIGN(stack_top - stack_base); + stack_shift = stack_base - vma->vm_start; mm->arg_start = bprm->p + stack_shift; bprm->p = vma->vm_end + stack_shift; #else BUG_ON(stack_top & ~PAGE_MASK); - stack_base = arch_align_stack(stack_top - mm->stack_vm*PAGE_SIZE); - stack_base = PAGE_ALIGN(stack_base); - - /* Make sure we didn't let the argument array grow too large. */ - if (stack_base > stack_top) - return -ENOMEM; + stack_top = arch_align_stack(stack_top); + stack_top = PAGE_ALIGN(stack_top); + stack_shift = stack_top - vma->vm_end; - stack_shift = stack_base - (bprm->p & PAGE_MASK); bprm->p += stack_shift; mm->arg_start = bprm->p; #endif @@ -598,7 +595,7 @@ int setup_arg_pages(struct linux_binprm return -EFAULT; } #else - if (expand_stack(vma, stack_base - + if (expand_stack(vma, vma->vm_start - EXTRA_STACK_VM_PAGES * PAGE_SIZE)) { up_write(&mm->mmap_sem); return -EFAULT; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/