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To: "Ulrich Weigand" <Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] 4KB stack + irq stack for x86
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: 06 Jun 2002 21:49:15 +0200
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"Ulrich Weigand" <Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com> writes:

> (*Really* ugly is s390x, because we need about twice as much stack on
> average than on s390, but page size is still only 4K -- most other 64-bit
> platforms have 8K page size ...)

<minor detail, but perhaps still interesting>

Seems to be an old myth. Actually the 4K paged 64bit platforms are in the majority.

64bit linux platforms:

4K page: x86-64, ppc64, s390x, mips64, parisc64(?)
8K:	 alpha, sparc64
8-64K:   ia64

-Andi
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