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| author | Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> | 2014-08-06 23:36:12 -0700 |
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| committer | Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> | 2014-08-06 23:36:12 -0700 |
| commit | 5e2aa2ed08e2e280121dc7cf5609c87d464f12ef (patch) | |
| tree | ca7d7b1480285e3b617fecc5b41f0ce150a82c32 /include/linux/sched/sysctl.h | |
| parent | f62d14a8072b9756db36ba394e2b267470a40240 (diff) | |
| parent | fc8104bc5a3f6f49d79f45f2706f79f77a9fb2ae (diff) | |
Merge branch 'next' into for-linus
Prepare first round of input updates for 3.17.
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/sched/sysctl.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sched/sysctl.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sched/sysctl.h index 8045a554cafb..596a0e007c62 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched/sysctl.h +++ b/include/linux/sched/sysctl.h @@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ enum { sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs = 0 }; * Because the kernel adds some informative sections to a image of program at * generating coredump, we need some margin. The number of extra sections is * 1-3 now and depends on arch. We use "5" as safe margin, here. + * + * ELF extended numbering allows more than 65535 sections, so 16-bit bound is + * not a hard limit any more. Although some userspace tools can be surprised by + * that. */ #define MAPCOUNT_ELF_CORE_MARGIN (5) #define DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT (USHRT_MAX - MAPCOUNT_ELF_CORE_MARGIN) |