Re: anon_vma RFC2

Chris Friesen
2004-03-12T19:14:08Z

Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Chris Friesen wrote:
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>>What happens when you have more than PAGE_SIZE processes running?
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> Forked off the same process ?
> Without doing an exec ?
> On a 32 bit system ?
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> You'd probably run out of space to put the VMAs,
> mm_structs and pgds long before reaching this point ...

I'm just thinking of the "fork 100000 kids to test 32-bit pids" sort of
test cases.

Chris

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