Re: [Bug #11342] Linux 2.6.27-rc3: kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c - bisected

Adrian Bunk
2008-08-27T11:58:47Z

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 06:49:19PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>...
> But part of it is definitely gcc. Some versions of gcc used to be
> absolutely _horrid_ when it came to stack usage, especially with some
> flags, and especially with the crazy inlining that module-at-a-time
> caused.
>...

That was gcc 3.4.

And due to that we disable unit-at-a-time for gcc 3.4 on 32bit x86.

> Linus

cu
Adrian

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