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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] binfmt: turn MAX_ARG_PAGES into a sysctl tunable
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Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> 
> Some folks find 128KB of env+arg space too little. Solaris provides them with
> 1MB. Manually changing MAX_ARG_PAGES worked for them so far, however they
> would like to run the supported vendor kernel.

then this patch should go to the vendors maybe ;)
> 
> In the interrest of not penalizing everybody with the overhead of just
> setting it larger, provide a sysctl to change it.
> 


why not go all the way and make it truely dynamic ?