Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks

Dave Jones
2005-12-20T18:25:21Z

On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 09:56:10AM -0800, David Lang wrote:

> at least one of the 'popular distributions' that switched to 4k stacks
> years ago worked around the problems that it generated by simply lableing
> the portions that didn't work with 4k stacks as 'unsupported by this
> distro' (XFS has been explicitly stated to be in this catagory in these
> discussions)

Actually there are several reasons why certain parts are
unsupported in RHEL kernels. The fact that XFS blew up with
4k stacks was purely coincidental to it being unsupported.

Dave