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Subject: Re: [patch] larger kernel stack (8k->16k) per task
To: tigran@veritas.com (Tigran Aivazian)
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 15:52:15 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hugh@veritas.com (Hugh Dickins)
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> It is against 2.4.9 but should be easy to port in any direction. (One way
> the patch could be improved is by making the size CONFIG_ option instead
> of hardcoding). Oh btw, please don't tell me "but now you'd need _four_
> physically-contiguous pages to create a task instead of two!" because I
> know it (and think it's not too bad).

As a debugging tool its ok. Adding 8K to the kernel stack size
is a wonderful way to eat huge amounts of RAM though.
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