Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754629AbYH0IfI (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:35:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753136AbYH0Ie4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:34:56 -0400 Received: from ns.firmix.at ([62.141.48.66]:1103 "EHLO ns.firmix.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753127AbYH0Iez (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:34:55 -0400 Subject: Re: [Bug #11342] Linux 2.6.27-rc3: kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c - bisected From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: Parag Warudkar Cc: Linus Torvalds , Adrian Bunk , Rusty Russell , "Alan D. Brunelle" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List , Andrew Morton , Arjan van de Ven , Ingo Molnar , linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <48B313E0.1000501@hp.com> <200808261111.19205.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <20080826183051.GB10925@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <20080826205916.GB11734@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Firmix Software GmbH Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:34:08 +0200 Message-Id: <1219826048.30209.2.camel@spike.firmix.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-8.el5_2.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Firmix-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on ns.firmix.at X-Firmix-Spam-Score: -2.344 () AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Firmix-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.344 required=5 X-Spam-Score: -2.344 () AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Firmix-Envelope-From: X-Firmix-Envelope-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1134 Lines: 29 On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 18:54 -0400, Parag Warudkar wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Linus Torvalds > wrote: > > > And embedded people (the ones that might care about 1% code size) are the > > ones that would also want smaller stacks even more! > > This is something I never understood - embedded devices are not going > to run more than a few processes and 4K*(Few Processes) > IMHO is not worth a saving now a days even in embedded world given > falling memory prices. Or do I misunderstand? Falling prices are no reason to increase the amount of available RAM (or other hardware). Especially if you (intend to) build >1E5 devices - where every Euro counts. Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services -- 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/