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Subject: Re: Large stack usage in fs code (especially for PPC64)
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 15:34 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Note, I was using a default config that had CONFIG_IRQSTACKS off and
> CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES on.

For one, we definitely need to turn IRQSTACKS on by default ... In fact,
I'm pondering just removing the option.

Cheers,
Ben.