From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernd Petrovitsch Subject: Re: [Bug #11342] Linux 2.6.27-rc3: kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c - bisected Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:34:08 +0200 Message-ID: <1219826048.30209.2.camel@spike.firmix.at> References: <48B313E0.1000501@hp.com> <200808261111.19205.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <20080826183051.GB10925@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <20080826205916.GB11734@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Parag Warudkar Cc: Linus Torvalds , Adrian Bunk , Rusty Russell , "Alan D. Brunelle" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List , Andrew Morton , Arjan van de Ven , Ingo Molnar , linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 18:54 -0400, Parag Warudkar wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Linus Torvalds > wrote: > > > And embedded people (the ones that might care about 1% code size) are the > > ones that would also want smaller stacks even more! > > This is something I never understood - embedded devices are not going > to run more than a few processes and 4K*(Few Processes) > IMHO is not worth a saving now a days even in embedded world given > falling memory prices. Or do I misunderstand? Falling prices are no reason to increase the amount of available RAM (or other hardware). Especially if you (intend to) build >1E5 devices - where every Euro counts. Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services