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    metag: Reduce maximum stack size to 256MB · d71f290b
    James Hogan authored
    Specify the maximum stack size for arches where the stack grows upward
    (parisc and metag) in asm/processor.h rather than hard coding in
    fs/exec.c so that metag can specify a smaller value of 256MB rather than
    1GB.
    
    This fixes a BUG on metag if the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is increased
    beyond a safe value by root. E.g. when starting a process after running
    "ulimit -H -s unlimited" it will then attempt to use a stack size of the
    maximum 1GB which is far too big for metag's limited user virtual
    address space (stack_top is usually 0x3ffff000):
    
    BUG: failure at fs/exec.c:589/shift_arg_pages()!
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
    Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
    Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
    Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # only needed for >= v3.9 (arch/metag)
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