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| author |   Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> | 2010-09-07 19:36:28 -0700 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-09-10 08:10:26 -0700 |
| commit | 7993bc1f4663c0db67bb8f0d98e6678145b387cd (patch) | |
| tree | d283304f635cc5c36d8fa3319dd663209138988e /fs/exec.c | |
| parent | setup_arg_pages: diagnose excessive argument size (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-7993bc1f4663c0db67bb8f0d98e6678145b387cd.tar.xz linux-dev-7993bc1f4663c0db67bb8f0d98e6678145b387cd.zip | |
execve: improve interactivity with large arguments
This adds a preemption point during the copying of the argument and
environment strings for execve, in copy_strings(). There is already
a preemption point in the count() loop, so this doesn't add any new
points in the abstract sense.
When the total argument+environment strings are very large, the time
spent copying them can be much more than a normal user time slice.
So this change improves the interactivity of the rest of the system
when one process is doing an execve with very large arguments.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to '')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/exec.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index 1b63237fc6dc..6f2d777431a8 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -419,6 +419,8 @@ static int copy_strings(int argc, const char __user *const __user *argv, while (len > 0) { int offset, bytes_to_copy; + cond_resched(); + offset = pos % PAGE_SIZE; if (offset == 0) offset = PAGE_SIZE; |