From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ocean.emcraft.com (ocean.emcraft.com [213.221.7.182]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5343DDDEFF for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:54:37 +1100 (EST) 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 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: <200812092044.40649.yur@emcraft.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Detlev Zundel , Wolfgang Denk , Milton Miller , Ilya Yanok List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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