Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757151AbYH0PUQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:20:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754626AbYH0PTy (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:19:54 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:53524 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754428AbYH0PTx (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:19:53 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:18:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Paul Mackerras cc: Parag Warudkar , 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 Subject: Re: [Bug #11342] Linux 2.6.27-rc3: kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c - bisected In-Reply-To: <18612.60878.887716.452936@drongo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Message-ID: References: <200808261111.19205.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <20080826183051.GB10925@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <20080826205916.GB11734@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <18612.60878.887716.452936@drongo.ozlabs.ibm.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 481 Lines: 16 On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > I think your memory is failing you. In 2.4 and earlier, the kernel > stack was 8kB minus the size of the task_struct, which sat at the > start of the 8kB. Yup, you're right. Linus -- 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/