Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759321AbXFFIyd (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 04:54:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754719AbXFFIy0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 04:54:26 -0400 Received: from viefep18-int.chello.at ([213.46.255.22]:22748 "EHLO viefep25-int.chello.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751113AbXFFIyZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 04:54:25 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm: variable length argument support From: Peter Zijlstra To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Ollie Wild , Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen In-Reply-To: <20070606013658.20bcbe2f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20070605150523.786600000@chello.nl> <20070605151203.790585000@chello.nl> <20070606013658.20bcbe2f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:54:21 +0200 Message-Id: <1181120061.7348.177.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1831 Lines: 54 On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 01:36 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:05:27 +0200 Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > From: Ollie Wild > > > > Remove the arg+env limit of MAX_ARG_PAGES by copying the strings directly > > from the old mm into the new mm. > > > > We create the new mm before the binfmt code runs, and place the new stack > > at the very top of the address space. Once the binfmt code runs and figures > > out where the stack should be, we move it downwards. > > > > It is a bit peculiar in that we have one task with two mm's, one of which is > > inactive. > > > > ... > > > > + flush_cache_page(bprm->vma, kpos, > > + page_to_pfn(kmapped_page)); Bah, and my frv cross build bums out on an unrelated change,.. I'll see if I can get a noMMU arch building, in the mean time, would you try this: --- Since no-MMU doesn't do the fancy inactive mm access there is no need to flush cache. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra --- Index: linux-2.6-2/fs/exec.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-2.orig/fs/exec.c 2007-06-05 16:48:52.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6-2/fs/exec.c 2007-06-06 10:49:19.000000000 +0200 @@ -428,8 +428,10 @@ static int copy_strings(int argc, char _ kmapped_page = page; kaddr = kmap(kmapped_page); kpos = pos & PAGE_MASK; +#ifdef CONFIG_MMU flush_cache_page(bprm->vma, kpos, page_to_pfn(kmapped_page)); +#endif } if (copy_from_user(kaddr+offset, str, bytes_to_copy)) { ret = -EFAULT; - 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/