From owner-svn-src-head@freebsd.org Tue Dec 17 23:07:53 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0065A1CCC2E; Tue, 17 Dec 2019 23:07:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from spindle.one-eyed-alien.net (spindle.one-eyed-alien.net [199.48.129.229]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 47cv1h5vLVz3P8d; Tue, 17 Dec 2019 23:07:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: by spindle.one-eyed-alien.net (Postfix, from userid 3001) id 163793C0199; Tue, 17 Dec 2019 23:07:46 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 23:07:46 +0000 From: Brooks Davis To: Pedro Giffuni Cc: Cy Schubert , src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r355828 - head/sys/sys Message-ID: <20191217230746.GB25842@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <201912162355.xBGNtUq6078840@repo.freebsd.org> <201912170442.xBH4gUOg063777@slippy.cwsent.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="neYutvxvOLaeuPCA" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 47cv1h5vLVz3P8d X-Spamd-Bar: ----- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-5.99 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-0.996,0]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-0.998,0]; REPLY(-4.00)[] X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 23:07:53 -0000 --neYutvxvOLaeuPCA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 01:28:20PM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > On 16/12/2019 23:42, Cy Schubert wrote: > > In message <201912162355.xBGNtUq6078840@repo.freebsd.org>, "Pedro F. > > Giffuni" w > > rites: > >> Author: pfg > >> Date: Mon Dec 16 23:55:30 2019 > >> New Revision: 355828 > >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/355828 > >> > >> Log: > >> Double the size of ARG_MAX on LP64 platforms. > >> =20 > >> As modern software keeps growing in size, we get requests to update= the > >> value of ARG_MAX in order to link the resulting object files. Other= OSs > >> have much higher values but Increasiong ARG_MAX has a multiplied ef= fect on > >> KVA, so just bumping this value is dangerous in some archs like ARM= 32 that > >> can exhaust KVA rather easily. > >> =20 > >> While it would be better to have a unique value for all archs, othe= r OSs > >> (Illumos in partidular) can have different ARG_MAX limits depending= on the > >> platform, For now we want to be really conservative so we are avoi= dng > >> the change on ILP32 and in the alternative case we only double it s= ince tha > >> t > >> seems to work well enough for recent Code Aster. > >> =20 > >> I was planning to bump the _FreeBSD_version but it was bumped recen= tly > >> (r355798) so we can reuse the 1300068 value for this change. > > This doesn't seem right. Each bump should be for a distinct change and > > documented as such. >=20 > TBH, it is just not worth it: this change will currently benefit only=20 > one port (french/aster) and the update won't be committed until after=20 > the MFC is done. An MFC is a quite long-term solution. If merged to 11 and 12 then any workarounds can't be removed until 11.3 and 12.1 are EOL since we'll be building packages there until that point. -- Brooks --neYutvxvOLaeuPCA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJd+V/BAAoJEKzQXbSebgfAEusH/0C2BEO1GFQaGD9BLw1TqW8k RBtIn6BEY+fd/xih14ZA5cdC+UzJ0OvbkTXxwf8yrbPbfwANitcxO9zlG13qCRzG +vZ/8HdPfbH5qhWmvoDOG2U3WnKaSsJAW9IYAoO3Au2ulMU68Wm+IyHLPKTKhCxw srXXt6eCM1fLkb2IOPS85Hg6D+iLE9PQg1IsVc1X+MgYPoWaISPcqp7bdIXKpK4a whnQmvfBJOhoOTg15+cl5ohXh2uaAiLyYs4ekm8Pouy6zUCDcTXMSVdRVE+YgLBe D3ejVd9T9IOXAaMVPQx5mxZKDy623fLjCZvL41jL3F8VUI7ZSieEmoYJf2vO804= =fqzI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --neYutvxvOLaeuPCA--