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* max_user_watches overflows on 16TB system.
@ 2010-10-01 20:01 Robin Holt
  2010-10-01 20:37 ` Davide Libenzi
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Robin Holt @ 2010-10-01 20:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Davide Libenzi, Eric W. Biederman, Pekka Enberg; +Cc: linux-kernel


Following a boot of a 16TB system, we noticed that the max_user_watches
sysctl was negative.  Is there any downside to converting that to a
static long and handling the fallout from the change?  I believe that
fallout includes changing the definition of epoll_watches over to an
atomic_long_t as well.

Alternatively should we just limit max_user_watches to INT_MAX?

Thanks,
Robin Holt

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2010-10-01 20:01 max_user_watches overflows on 16TB system Robin Holt
2010-10-01 20:37 ` Davide Libenzi
2010-10-02  3:04   ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-10-02 14:04     ` Davide Libenzi
2010-10-04 19:44       ` [Patch] Convert max_user_watches to long Robin Holt
2010-10-06  2:21         ` Davide Libenzi
2010-10-09  7:50           ` Robin Holt
2010-10-10 19:05             ` Randy Dunlap
2010-10-11  4:49             ` Davide Libenzi
2010-10-14 17:15               ` Robin Holt

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