From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Howells Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/13: eCryptfs] Superblock operations Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 15:52:37 +0100 Message-ID: <9519.1146840757@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> References: <1146839690.10108.21.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> <1146834740.10109.9.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> <84144f020605040737k316fd5abva4476da69a65c084@mail.gmail.com> <20060504031755.GA28257@hellewell.homeip.net> <20060504033829.GE28613@hellewell.homeip.net> <23457.1146778849@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <3439.1146837829@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> Cc: David Howells , Pekka Enberg , Phillip Hellewell , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, mike@halcrow.us, mhalcrow@us.ibm.com, mcthomps@us.ibm.com, toml@us.ibm.com, yoder1@us.ibm.com, James Morris , "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Erez Zadok Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:50851 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751128AbWEEOxL (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 May 2006 10:53:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1146839690.10108.21.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> To: Dave Kleikamp Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Dave Kleikamp wrote: > > Either way, it will use more stack; the mere fact that whilst it's using the > > value, the compiler may stash it in a register is irrelevant. > > Is the stack usage very close to exceeding 4 KB? Could saving one more > pointer on the stack cause a problem? I suspect you don't know since it's a stacked filesystem. David