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Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:42:23 -0700
From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com>
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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       arjan@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks
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Andrew,

Thanks. I concur.

Jeff

Andrew Morton wrote:

>Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
>  
>
>>This patch was already sent on:
>>- 11 Dec 2005
>>- 5 Dec 2005
>>- 30 Nov 2005
>>- 23 Nov 2005
>>- 14 Nov 2005
>>    
>>
>
>Sigh.  I saw the volume of email last time and though "gee, glad I wasn't
>cc'ed on that lot".
>
>Supporting 8k stacks is a small amount of code and nobody has seen a need
>to make changes in there for quite a long time.  So there's little cost to
>keeping the existing code.
>
>And the existing code is useful:
>
>a) people can enable it to confirm that their weird crash was due to a
>   stack overflow.
>
>b) If I was going to put together a maximally-stable kernel for a
>   complex server machine, I'd select 8k stacks.  We're still just too
>   squeezy, and we've had too many relatively-recent overflows, and there
>   are still some really deep callpaths in there.
>
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