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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [2.6 patch] let 4KSTACKS depend on EXPERIMENTAL (fwd)
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 00:59:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040802225951.GR2746@fs.tum.de> (raw)

Hi Andrew,

I'd like to see the patch below included in 2.6.8 .


----- Forwarded message from Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> -----

Date:	Sun, 1 Aug 2004 21:02:41 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
	"Jeffrey E. Hundstad" <jeffrey.hundstad@mnsu.edu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Steve Lord <lord@xfs.org>, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com,
	Cahya Wirawan <cwirawan@email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [2.6 patch] let 4KSTACKS depend on EXPERIMENTAL

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 08:30:40AM +1000, Nathan Scott wrote:
>...
> Adrian wrote:
> > 2.6 is a stable kernel series used in production environments.
> > 
> > Regarding Linus' tree, it's IMHO the best solution to work around it 
> > this way until all issues are sorted out.
> 
> I'm not really convinced - the EXPERIMENTAL marking should
> be plenty of a deterent to folks in production environments.
> There are reports of stack overruns on other filesystems as
> well with 4KSTACKS, so doesn't seem worthwhile to me to do
> this just for XFS.


OK, below is a patch that only adds a dependency of 4KSTACKS on 
EXPERIMENTAL.

Considering that not all issues with 4kb stacks are currently corrected, 
this patch should IMHO go in 2.6.8 .


Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>

--- linux-2.6.8-rc2-mm1-full/arch/i386/Kconfig.old	2004-08-01 20:59:02.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.8-rc2-mm1-full/arch/i386/Kconfig	2004-08-01 20:59:46.000000000 +0200
@@ -1474,7 +1474,8 @@
 	  to solve problems without frame pointers.
 
 config 4KSTACKS
-	bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb"
+	bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
 	help
 	  If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the
 	  kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates


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             reply	other threads:[~2004-08-02 23:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-02 22:59 Adrian Bunk [this message]
2004-08-02 23:28 ` [2.6 patch] let 4KSTACKS depend on EXPERIMENTAL (fwd) Andrew Morton
2004-08-03  0:45   ` Adrian Bunk
2004-08-02 23:56     ` Alan Cox
2004-08-03 13:13       ` Adrian Bunk
2004-08-03 13:26         ` Dave Jones
2004-08-03 20:11       ` Adrian Bunk

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