Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262653AbTHZFrc (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 01:47:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262629AbTHZFrc (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 01:47:32 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:52610 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262653AbTHZFrb (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 01:47:31 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 22:50:11 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Ingo Molnar Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Futex non-page-pinning fix Message-Id: <20030825225011.2ad47c85.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20030825210606.5912bac4.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 586 Lines: 13 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > but if all futexes pin down one page (worst-case), then to make it really > safe we'll have to use a fairly low default RLIM_NRFUTEX value - which > will decrease the generic utility of futexes. We could make it RLIM_NRFUTEX_PAGES: the number of pages which the user can pin via futexes, perhaps. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/