On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 01:48:03PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote: > > > So far it's kernel limitation and this patch fixes crashes > > > that users see now, with the rest of patches enabling performance > > > not to regress. > > > > When I say regression I refer to an option to limit the array > > size again after userspace started using the larger size. > Is there a need to do so?
Considering userspace can be malicious, I guess yes. > Userspace that cares about memory footprint won't use many slots > keeping it low and user space that can't do without many slots > or doesn't care will have bigger memory footprint. We really can't trust userspace to do the right thing though. -- MST -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
