linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] arm64 fixes for 3.11

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Message-ID: <1374882473.9200.33.camel@pasglop>
Date:	Sat, 27 Jul 2013 09:47:53 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] arm64 fixes for 3.11

On Fri, 2013-07-26 at 12:54 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> *Some* other 64-bit architectures do 16k stack sizes. But neither
> x86-64 nor powerpc do, afaik. Instead, they do irq stacks, which is
> generally a better idea than having one big stack.

Sadly you over estimated us here :-) We do 16K *and* irq stacks on
64-bit ... Remember our ABI with it's 112 bytes minimum per frame ?

It's been a while since I've last audited our actual usage mind you, we
*might* be able to reduce it but at this stage, since our typical
configs use a 64K base page size, it's not a big deal (ie, it's not an
order-N allocation).

Cheers,
Ben.


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