linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.4 01/58] parisc: Increase thread and stack size to 32kb

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Date:   Fri, 11 Aug 2017 08:33:01 -0700
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Helge Deller <deller@....de>
Cc:     Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 01/58] parisc: Increase thread and stack size to 32kb

On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 09:21:15AM +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
> On 11.08.2017 03:33, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Wed, 2017-08-09 at 12:41 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >> 4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >>
> >> ------------------
> >>
> >> From: Helge Deller <deller@....de>
> >>
> >> commit 8f8201dfed91a43ac38c899c82f81eef3d36afd9 upstream.
> >>
> >> Since kernel 4.11 the thread and irq stacks on parisc randomly overflow
> >> the default size of 16k. The reason why stack usage suddenly grew is yet
> >> unknown.
> > 
> > So we don't need this for 4.4.
> 
> Correct.
> 
> I had Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # 4.11+
> in the commit itself:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8f8201dfed91a43ac38c899c82f81eef3d36afd9
> 

Yes, my fault, I shouldn't have applied it there, now dropped.

thanks,

greg k-h