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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:14:36 +0100 From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: "Ray Lee" <ray-lk@...rabbit.org> Cc: "Rene Herman" <rene.herman@...il.com>, "Bodo Eggert" <7eggert@....de>, "Matt Mackall" <mpm@...enic.com>, "Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@...p.org>, "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com>, "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "William Lee Irwin III" <wli@...omorphy.com>, "David Chinner" <dgc@....com>, "Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@...radead.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...? On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:15:28 -0700 "Ray Lee" <ray-lk@...rabbit.org> wrote: > On 7/16/07, Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com> wrote: > > Yes but it's also an argument that the 4K stacks don't make the _current_ > > situation without CONFIG_4KSTACKS selected worse and given that you trust > > that current situation, that leaves you without your argument :-) > > Heh :-). No, it's not a question of trust. First and foremost, it's > that there are still users who say that they can crash a current > 4k+interrupt stacks kernel, while the 8k without interrupt stacks is > fine. You forgot "most of the time". Its statistically less likely, which merely means its evilly hard to debug - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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