Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754943AbYLIRzG (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2008 12:55:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755069AbYLIRyd (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2008 12:54:33 -0500 Received: from ocean.emcraft.com ([213.221.7.182]:33299 "EHLO ocean.emcraft.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755044AbYLIRyb (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2008 12:54:31 -0500 From: Yuri Tikhonov To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] fork_init: fix division by zero Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 20:44:40 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Milton Miller , Wolfgang Denk , Detlev Zundel , Ilya Yanok MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200812092044.40649.yur@emcraft.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1412 Lines: 44 The following patch fixes divide-by-zero error for the cases of really big PAGE_SIZEs (e.g. 256KB on ppc44x). Support for such big page sizes on 44x is not present in the current kernel yet, but coming soon. Also this patch fixes the comment for the max_threads settings, as this didn't match the things actually done in the code. Signed-off-by: Yuri Tikhonov Signed-off-by: Ilya Yanok --- kernel/fork.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 2a372a0..b0ac2fb 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -181,10 +181,14 @@ void __init fork_init(unsigned long mempages) /* * The default maximum number of threads is set to a safe - * value: the thread structures can take up at most half - * of memory. + * value: the thread structures can take up at most + * (1/8) part of memory. */ +#if (8 * THREAD_SIZE) > PAGE_SIZE max_threads = mempages / (8 * THREAD_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE); +#else + max_threads = mempages * PAGE_SIZE / (8 * THREAD_SIZE); +#endif /* * we need to allow at least 20 threads to boot a system -- 1.5.6.1 -- 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/