Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:08:57 +0100
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On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 20:02 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Gwe, 2005-12-16 at 17:23 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > Now, I want to test bcm43xx on 4k stacks. But only have a
> > ppc32 machine with such a broadcom card. ppc32 has 8k stacks.
> > How am I supposed to test the driver for 4kstack conformance?
> 
> Unless you've been writing fairly careless code putting a lot of objects
> on stack a driver is going to work fine with 4K stacks.

there is also "make checkstack" that works on many architectures, and
lists offenders. If you're clean there it's very likely you're very
ok ;)

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