Re: anon_vma RFC2

From: Chris Friesen
Date: Fri Mar 12 2004 - 14:19:00 EST


Rik van Riel wrote:
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Chris Friesen wrote:


What happens when you have more than PAGE_SIZE processes running?


Forked off the same process ?
Without doing an exec ?
On a 32 bit system ?

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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