linux-kernel - Re: [-mm patch] i386: enable 4k stacks by default

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Date:	30 Apr 2007 14:13:16 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	David Chinner <dgc@....com>, Zan Lynx <zlynx@....org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [-mm patch] i386: enable 4k stacks by default

Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> writes:

> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:26:42PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> > 
> > > If this still occurs for some
> > > combinations then the fix would be 8K + 4K IRQ stack, not just to use 8K
> > > stack
> > 
> > Yes i've been thinking for some time doing that would be a good idea.
> 
> Yes, the non-irqstack case should definitively go away.  And 8k
> kernel stacks isn't that little given how much most 64bit architectures
> have.

Actually looking at the code it would need some fixes first:

/*
 * These should really be __section__(".bss.page_aligned") as well, but
 * gcc's 3.0 and earlier don't handle that correctly.
 */
static char softirq_stack[NR_CPUS * THREAD_SIZE]
                __attribute__((__aligned__(THREAD_SIZE)));

static char hardirq_stack[NR_CPUS * THREAD_SIZE]
                __attribute__((__aligned__(THREAD_SIZE)));


With 8K stacks and NR_CPUS==128 that would be 2MB statically reserved. Yuck.
Really needs to be dynamically allocated. I'll take a look once the .22 
big merge is done.

-Andi
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