linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: enhance DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN

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Date:	Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:23:09 -0400
From:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
To:	maximilian attems <max@...o.at>
Cc:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>,
	Martin Michlmayr <tbm@...ius.com>,
	Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: enhance DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR description

On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 19:13 +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> Got burned by setting the proposed default of 65536
> across all Debian archs.
> 
> Thus proposing to be more specific on which archs you may
> set this. Also propose a value for arm and friends that
> doesn't break sshd.

I certainly don't have a problem with the patch.

Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>

Although I do have reports of ppc64 and ia64 working fine with 64k I
don't see the need to clutter up the issue by listing all 3 arches I've
seen it not break instead of your message just mentioning x86.

-Eric

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