RE: [patch] removes MAX_ARG_PAGES

2007-05-25 Thread Luck, Tony
> I just tried this on an Altix from the test lab, and ia32 bash just > started. I don't have any native x86 binaries on my Madison-based testbox, so my test case was to compile a simple program that counted total length of argument strings on an x86 box, and copy it to my ia64 box. So that I wou

RE: [patch] removes MAX_ARG_PAGES

2007-05-24 Thread Peter Zijlstra
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 /u

RE: [patch] removes MAX_ARG_PAGES

2007-05-22 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 10:46 -0700, Luck, Tony wrote: > > We've tested the following architectures: i386, x86_64, um/i386, > > parisc, and frv. These are representative of the various scenarios > > which this patch addresses, but other architecture teams should try it > > out to make sure there are

Re: [patch] removes MAX_ARG_PAGES

2007-05-10 Thread Rob Landley
On Thursday 10 May 2007 12:06 am, Ollie Wild wrote: > On 5/9/07, Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just FYI, a really really quick and dirty way of testing this sort of thing on > > more architectures and you're likely to physically have? > > Does this properly emulate caching? On paris

Re: [patch] removes MAX_ARG_PAGES

2007-05-09 Thread Ollie Wild
On 5/9/07, Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just FYI, a really really quick and dirty way of testing this sort of thing on more architectures and you're likely to physically have? Does this properly emulate caching? On parisc, cache coherency was the main issue we ran into. I suspect th

Re: [patch] removes MAX_ARG_PAGES

2007-05-09 Thread Rob Landley
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 4:48 pm, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 6 May 2007 01:51:34 -0700 > "Ollie Wild" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A while back, I sent out a preliminary patch > > (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.hppa/752) to remove the > > MAX_ARG_PAGES limit on command line siz

Re: [patch] removes MAX_ARG_PAGES

2007-05-09 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 6 May 2007 01:51:34 -0700 "Ollie Wild" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A while back, I sent out a preliminary patch > (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.hppa/752) to remove the > MAX_ARG_PAGES limit on command line sizes. Since then, Peter Zijlstra > and I have fixed a number of bugs

Re: [patch] removes MAX_ARG_PAGES

2007-05-07 Thread William Lee Irwin III
At some point in the past, Ollie Wild wrote: >> We've tested the following architectures: i386, x86_64, um/i386, >> parisc, and frv. These are representative of the various scenarios >> which this patch addresses, but other architecture teams should try it >> out to make sure there aren't any unex

RE: [patch] removes MAX_ARG_PAGES

2007-05-07 Thread Luck, Tony
> We've tested the following architectures: i386, x86_64, um/i386, > parisc, and frv. These are representative of the various scenarios > which this patch addresses, but other architecture teams should try it > out to make sure there aren't any unexpected gotchas. Doesn't build on ia64: complaint