Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760749AbYFTVrt (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:47:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753971AbYFTVri (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:47:38 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:40131 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753776AbYFTVrh (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:47:37 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:47:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080620.144736.224107106.davem@davemloft.net> To: mpatocka@redhat.com Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, agk@redhat.com Subject: Re: stack overflow on Sparc64 From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20080620.144424.168785883.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20080620.142034.30884440.davem@davemloft.net> <20080620.144424.168785883.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 646 Lines: 15 From: David Miller Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:44:24 -0700 (PDT) > I agree on both counts. Although I'm curious what the average stack > frame sizes look like on x86_64 and i386, and also how this area > appears on powerpc. I also one to mention in passing that another thing we can do to help deep call stack sizes is to make call chains more tail-call friendly when possible. -- 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/