[BK SUMMARY] Remove NGROUPS hardlimit (resend w/o qsort)

From: Timothy Hockin (th122948@scl2.sfbay.sun.com)
Date: Thu Nov 14 2002 - 18:26:12 EST


Linus,

This patchset removes the hard NGROUPS limit. It has been in use in a similar
form on our systems for some time.

There is a small change needed for glibc, and I will send that patch to the
glibc people if/when this gets pulled.

Unlike prior versions of this patch, I have changed qsort() to a simple
non-recursive sort. Several people indicated that this change would solve
their objections.

Lastly, this does not fixup all the architectures. I have other patchsets for
that, which need to be reviewed by arch maintainers.

Tim

Please do a

        bk pull http://suncobalt.bkbits.net/ngroups-2.5

This will update the following files:

 fs/nfsd/auth.c | 11 ++-
 fs/proc/array.c | 2
 include/asm-i386/param.h | 4 -
 include/linux/init_task.h | 1
 include/linux/kernel.h | 3 +
 include/linux/limits.h | 3 -
 include/linux/sched.h | 3 -
 include/linux/sunrpc/svcauth.h | 3 -
 kernel/exit.c | 6 ++
 kernel/fork.c | 4 +
 kernel/sys.c | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 kernel/uid16.c | 63 +++++++++++++++++-----
 lib/Makefile | 4 -
 lib/bsearch.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++
 net/sunrpc/svcauth_unix.c | 4 -
 15 files changed, 224 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)

through these ChangeSets (diffs in separate email):

<thockin@freakshow.cobalt.com> (02/11/11 1.855)
   fix usage of NGROUPS in nfsd and svcauth

<thockin@freakshow.cobalt.com> (02/11/11 1.854)
   Remove the limit of 32 groups. We now have a per-task, dynamic array of
   groups, which is kept sorted and refcounted.
   
   This ChangeSet incorporates all the core functionality. but does not fixup
   all the incorrect usages of groups. That is in a seperate ChangeSet.

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