[PATCH] Fix for get_pid hang

[Paul Larson <plars@austin.ibm.com>]

On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 16:11, Paul Larson wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 14:45, Patrick O'Rourke wrote:
> > It is possible on large memory systems that the default process limits
> > can exceed PID_MAX.  This will allow a non-root user to consume all pids
> > resulting in the kernel to basically hang in get_pid().
> > 
>   
> > +	/* don't let threads go beyond PID_MAX */
> > +	if (max_threads > PID_MAX) {
> > +		max_threads = PID_MAX;
> > +	}
> > +
> The problem with this approach is that it doesn't take into account
> pgrp, tgids, etc... I submitted the following patch a couple of weeks
> ago that fixes the problem a better way.
> 
> Thanks,
> Paul Larson

Marcelo, any chance of getting this accepted into the next 2.4.19-pre? 
It is obviously a bug that is afecting several others as well.  I think
the LSE team is looking at some performance enhancements to get_pid, but
from what I've seen so far they will be working on top of this bug fix. 
I just verified that the patch still applies cleanly against
2.4.19-pre2.

Thanks,
Paul Larson