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

Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-16T20:09:04Z

On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 20:02 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Gwe, 2005-12-16 at 17:23 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > Now, I want to test bcm43xx on 4k stacks. But only have a
> > ppc32 machine with such a broadcom card. ppc32 has 8k stacks.
> > How am I supposed to test the driver for 4kstack conformance?
>
> Unless you've been writing fairly careless code putting a lot of objects
> on stack a driver is going to work fine with 4K stacks.

there is also "make checkstack" that works on many architectures, and
lists offenders. If you're clean there it's very likely you're very
ok ;)