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From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	BuraphaLinux Server <buraphalinuxserver@gmail.com>,
	"Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@gmail.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Subject: Re: [Patch] console: limit the range of VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_SIZE
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:46:00 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B342768.8080603@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091225024340.4431.59297.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain>

Adding some Cc's in the original thread. :)

Amerigo Wang wrote:
> BuraphaLinux reported that we will trigger a mm warning when
> we CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_SIZE=65536, this is because
> mm cann't allocate so many pages. We should limit the range
> of CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_SIZE, don't give a user
> any chance to trigger that.
> 
> Reported-by: BuraphaLinux Server <buraphalinuxserver@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> 
> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/video/console/Kconfig b/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
> index fc7d9bb..8e8f18d 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
> @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ config VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK
>  config VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_SIZE
>         int "Scrollback Buffer Size (in KB)"
>         depends on VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK
> +       range 1 1024
>         default "64"
>         help
>           Enter the amount of System RAM to allocate for the scrollback


  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-25  2:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-25  2:40 Amerigo Wang
2009-12-25  2:46 ` Cong Wang [this message]
2009-12-25 13:59 ` BuraphaLinux Server

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