linux-kernel - Re: [14/18] Configure stack size

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Message-Id: <20071003.214306.41634525.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:43:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	arjan@...radead.org
Cc:	clameter@....com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ak@...e.de, travis@....com
Subject: Re: [14/18] Configure stack size

From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 21:36:31 -0700

> there is still code that does DMA from and to the stack....
> how would this work with virtual allocated stack?

That's a bug and must be fixed.

There honestly shouldn't be that many examples around.

FWIW, there are platforms using a virtually allocated kernel stack
already.
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