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authorHeinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>2015-04-16 12:47:47 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-04-17 09:04:07 -0400
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parentkernel/fork.c: new function for max_threads (diff)
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kernel/fork.c: avoid division by zero
PAGE_SIZE is not guaranteed to be equal to or less than 8 times the THREAD_SIZE. E.g. architecture hexagon may have page size 1M and thread size 4096. This would lead to a division by zero in the calculation of max_threads. With 32-bit calculation there is no solution which delivers valid results for all possible combinations of the parameters. The code is only called once. Hence a 64-bit calculation can be used as solution. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use clamp_t(), per Oleg] Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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