Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:06:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
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       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Subject: Re: anon_vma RFC2
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On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Chris Friesen wrote:

> What happens when you have more than PAGE_SIZE processes running?

Forked off the same process ?
Without doing an exec ?
On a 32 bit system ?

You'd probably run out of space to put the VMAs,
mm_structs and pgds long before reaching this point ...

-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

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