Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751223AbVLPAky (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:40:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751226AbVLPAky (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:40:54 -0500 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:660 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751223AbVLPAkx (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:40:53 -0500 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks From: Alan Cox To: "Jeff V. Merkey" Cc: Lee Revell , Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjan@infradead.org In-Reply-To: <43A1E876.6050407@wolfmountaingroup.com> References: <20051215212447.GR23349@stusta.de> <20051215140013.7d4ffd5b.akpm@osdl.org> <20051215223000.GU23349@stusta.de> <43A1DB18.4030307@wolfmountaingroup.com> <1134688488.12086.172.camel@mindpipe> <43A1E451.2090703@wolfmountaingroup.com> <1134689197.12086.176.camel@mindpipe> <43A1E876.6050407@wolfmountaingroup.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:38:47 +0000 Message-Id: <1134693527.21906.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 590 Lines: 13 On Iau, 2005-12-15 at 15:04 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > apply to kernel code. calls from several of our apps (which use > larger than 4K kernel space on a stack) Then you've got bugs anyway. In 8K stack mode that stack is shared with the IRQ/BH/etc stack so you've only got 4K to play with. Its just more random whether your box explodes. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/