Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757404AbXJDRXi (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 13:23:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752952AbXJDRXa (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 13:23:30 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:40199 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752018AbXJDRX3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 13:23:29 -0400 Subject: Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES From: Peter Zijlstra To: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer Cc: Ollie Wild , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:17:50 +0200 Message-Id: <1191518270.5574.21.camel@lappy> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1239 Lines: 35 On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 19:05 +0200, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote: > Hey there, > > I've seen the changes you made in commit b6a2fea39318 and I guess they > might be responsible for my xargs breakage... > > In the kernel source tree, if I run a stupid find | xargs ls, I now get > this: > xargs: ls: Argument list too long /me tries yep works like a charm, and that is a tree with a full git repo and several build dirs in it. > Which is kind of annoying but I can work around it though make distclean in > my kernel tree dies with the same symptom (aka -E2BIG). > > I run a vanilla 2.6.23-rc9 (Linux version 2.6.23-rc9 (mchouque@shookaylt) > (gcc version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-27)) #1 Tue Oct 2 08:13:47 EDT > 2007) on FC7... > > Let me know if I can do anything. I'm going to try to bisect the problem > after I recompile the kernel without this patch... what happens if you up the stack limit to say 128M ? Also, do you happen to have execve syscall audit stuff enabled? - 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/