linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86-32: remove CONFIG

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Message-ID: <20100616102307.GU20317@bombadil.infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:23:07 -0400
From:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86-32: remove CONFIG_4KSTACKS

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:20:51PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Perhaps XFS should select 8K stack instead ?
> 
> or rather !CONFIG_INSANE.  I don't care too much.  No one sane should
> ever enable it anymore, but Ingo asked me to send a patch to remove it.
> 

Alan--

It's not just XFS, we were regularly seeing blown stacks on Fedora with
ext3/4 and encrypted disks using dm-crypt...

--Kyle
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