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Message-ID: <20070430181315.GJ19966@holomorphy.com> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:13:15 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com> 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: [1/6] make stack size configurable (was: Re: [-mm patch] i386: enable 4k stacks by default) On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:40:47AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Make more stack sizes configurable, adding options for deeper stacks. >> This is largely for differential diagnosis in cases where stack overflows >> are suspected of silently corrupting memory or causing other problems not >> detected immediately. On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 07:10:32PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > I don't think we want anything bigger than 8, if you really need that > for debuggin it's easy enough to hack up on demand. These were instrumentation patches of such a form. The point of all this was mostly centered around 5/6, which bootmem allocates the various IRQ stacks as mentioned earlier. - wli - 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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