From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:57:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mipsfw.mips-uk.com ([194.74.144.146]:12038 "EHLO bacchus.dhis.org") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S8133657AbWBQP5d (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:57:33 +0000 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by bacchus.dhis.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1HG4CgH025634; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:04:12 GMT Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k1HG4CHH025633; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:04:12 GMT Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:04:12 +0000 From: Ralf Baechle To: joris lijssens Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: patch to increase stack size Message-ID: <20060217160412.GE18396@linux-mips.org> References: <20060216130236.72703.qmail@web36102.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060216130236.72703.qmail@web36102.mail.mud.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 10493 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 01:02:36PM +0000, joris lijssens wrote: > I was wondering if there is a patch avaible to > increase the stack size on a mips 2.6 linux kernel. I > have found one for the i386 that sets the stack size > from 4K to 16K. But I don't find anything for the mips > kernel. I would like it if somebody has some info on > this topic. If anything the aim is to shrink the kernel stack further. The larger allocations are, then less likely they succeed. 32-bit MIPS kernels use 8kB stack, 64-bit uses 16kB stacks. Ralf