Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core

Merge reason: branch had an old upstream base (-rc1-ish), but also
              merge to avoid a conflict.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 5ba2c377bb5a..9bada20e2b23 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -351,8 +351,20 @@ extern int mutex_spin_on_owner(struct mutex *lock, struct thread_info *owner);
 struct nsproxy;
 struct user_namespace;
 
-/* Maximum number of active map areas.. This is a random (large) number */
-#define DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT	65536
+/*
+ * Default maximum number of active map areas, this limits the number of vmas
+ * per mm struct. Users can overwrite this number by sysctl but there is a
+ * problem.
+ *
+ * When a program's coredump is generated as ELF format, a section is created
+ * per a vma. In ELF, the number of sections is represented in unsigned short.
+ * This means the number of sections should be smaller than 65535 at coredump.
+ * Because the kernel adds some informative sections to a image of program at
+ * generating coredump, we need some margin. The number of extra sections is
+ * 1-3 now and depends on arch. We use "5" as safe margin, here.
+ */
+#define MAPCOUNT_ELF_CORE_MARGIN	(5)
+#define DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT	(USHORT_MAX - MAPCOUNT_ELF_CORE_MARGIN)
 
 extern int sysctl_max_map_count;
 
@@ -488,6 +500,15 @@ struct task_cputime {
 		.sum_exec_runtime = 0,				\
 	}
 
+/*
+ * Disable preemption until the scheduler is running.
+ * Reset by start_kernel()->sched_init()->init_idle().
+ *
+ * We include PREEMPT_ACTIVE to avoid cond_resched() from working
+ * before the scheduler is active -- see should_resched().
+ */
+#define INIT_PREEMPT_COUNT	(1 + PREEMPT_ACTIVE)
+
 /**
  * struct thread_group_cputimer - thread group interval timer counts
  * @cputime:		thread group interval timers.