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

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Message-ID: <20070718011436.2438dea6@the-village.bc.nu>
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
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