Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 05:34:29 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: vapier.adi@gmail.com, rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org, lethal@linux-sh.org,
       gerg@uclinux.org, uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] FDPIC: Ignore the loader's PT_GNU_STACK when
	calculating the stack size
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On Wed 2009-07-08 12:01:40, David Howells wrote:
> Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> 
> > The patch seems wrong to me; loader needs the stack, too, right?
> > 
> > What about making sure that the loader specifies reasonable stack
> > size, instead?
> 
> The loader doesn't need its own stack, unless it _is_ the executable.  It uses
> the executable's stack.  The problem is that the executable and the loader can
> both specify the stack size for NOMMU, but which one do we pick, or do we
> consider both.

Imageine loader needs 64K, while executable only needs 4K. You surely
want to execute it with 64K stack, because it will not fit into 4K?

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