linux-kernel - Re: [patch] removes MAX_ARG

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Message-ID: <20070507190107.GF19966@holomorphy.com>
Date:	Mon, 7 May 2007 12:01:07 -0700
From:	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>
To:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc:	Ollie Wild <aaw@...gle.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, parisc-linux@...ts.parisc-linux.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [patch] removes MAX_ARG_PAGES

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 unexpected gotchas.

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:46:49AM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> Doesn't build on ia64: complaints from arch/ia64/ia32/binfmt_elf.c
> (which #includes ../../../fs/binfmt_elf.c) ...
[...]
> Turning off CONFIG_IA32-SUPPORT, the kernel built, but oops'd during boot.
> My serial connection to my test machine is currently broken, so I didn't
> get a capture of the stack trace, sorry.

It needs to sweep 32-bit emulation code more generally.


-- wli
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