linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

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Date:	Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:45:48 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>
To:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>
cc:	Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>, 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 Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Rene Herman wrote:
> On 07/17/2007 12:37 AM, Ray Lee wrote:
> > On 7/16/07, Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com> wrote:

> > If at some point one of the pro-4k stacks crowd can prove that all
> > code paths are safe
> 
> I'll do that the minute you prove the current shared 8K stacks are safe. Do 
> we have a deal?

You claim 4k+4k is safe, therefore 8k must be safe, too. But if 8k is 
safe, this does not yet prove that you can store 5k+3k in 4k+4k.
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