Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:31:25 +1100
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
       Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
       stable@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>,
       WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
       benh@kernel.crashing.org, miltonm@bga.com, aeb@cwi.nl
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Restrict stack space reservation to rlimit
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Hi,

> I didn't discuss which behavior is better. Michael said he want to apply
> his patch to 2.6.32 & 2.6.33. stable tree never accept the breaking
> compatibility patch.
> 
> Your answer doesn't explain why can't we wait it until next merge window.
> 
> 
> btw, personally, I like page size indepent stack size. but I'm not sure
> why making stack size independency is related to bug fix.

OK sorry, I misunderstood your initial mail. I agree fixing the bit that
regressed in 2.6.32 is the most important thing. The difference in page size is
clearly wrong but since it isn't a regression we could probably live with it
until 2.6.34

Anton
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