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Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/24] link_path_walk: kill the recursion
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
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> And no, we will *never* lift the recursion limit. Not for 1kB, not for
> 1MB. Never.

Just to clarify: that's for the "remove restrictions completely".
Upping it to 32 or 40 would be fine. But not with allocations on the
stack.

                 Linus