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From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: unconditionally enabled irq stacks
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:39:41 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1275572381.32304.9.camel@concordia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100603082426.GA6110@lst.de>

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On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 10:24 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Irq stacks provide an essential protection from stack overflows through
> external interrupts, at the cost of two additionals stacks per CPU.
> 
> Enable them unconditionally to simplify the kernel build and prevent
> people from accidentally disabling them.

Since when did we worry about simplifying the kernel build? :)

I'm thinking embedded folks might prefer the reduction in stack space,
though I guess we'll let them speak for themselves. Perhaps it could
depend on EMBEDDED?

It's not like it's a lot of extra code.

cheers




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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-03  8:24 [PATCH] powerpc: unconditionally enabled irq stacks Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-03 13:39 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]

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