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Date:	Tue, 3 Jun 2008 16:42:25 +1000
From:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
To:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	"FUJITA Tomonori" <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] clean up duplicated alloc/free_thread_info

Pekka Enberg writes:

> Yeah, I too have wondered why some architectures use kmalloc() whereas
> others use the page allocator. Is THREAD_SIZE significantly smaller
> than PAGE_SIZE for those?

64-bit powerpc uses 16k kernel stacks and either 4k or 64k page size.
If the page size is 64k then we don't want to allocate a whole page
for a kernel stack.

Paul.
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