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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 18:15:15 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: arjanv@redhat.com (Arjan van de Ven), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        riel@conectiva.com.br (Rik van Riel),
        alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
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> to reproduce it with larger stack and then (with aid of /proc/stack) the
> offender is found and fixed. I cc'd Alan; if he thinks this is a bad idea
> I would be interested to know why.

Personal feeling: it would be better to vmalloc the stack in this case
and use the existing vmalloc red zones. For 2.5 that should work out ok
unlike 2.4 where the scsi and usb will break
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