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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:42:50 -0800
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
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Subject: Re: doublefault debugging (was Re: Linux v2.5.62 --- spontaneous	reboots)
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At some point in the past, _A_ wrote:
>> You also need IRQ stacks to get down to 4K. The wrong pattern of ten
>> different IRQ handlers using a mere 200 bytes each will eventually
>> happen and eventually kill you otherwise.

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 12:23:49PM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> That's in Dave's patchset, and 4K stacks is a config option for now.

You might want to grab aeb's fully non-recursive pathwalking if
you really want to cut back the stack to 4KB, as well as fixing
whatever stackblasting drivers are about.


-- wli
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