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

Adrian Bunk
2005-11-16T18:45:10Z

On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 05:10:04PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 November 2005 16:38, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 16:30 +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > > Am Mittwoch, 16. November 2005 15:42 schrieb jmerkey:
> > > > Map a blank ro page beneath the address range when stack memory is
> > > > mapped is trap on page faults to the page when folks go off the end of
> > > > th e stack.
> > > >
> > > > Easy to find.
> > >
> > > Provided you can easily trigger it. I don't see how that is a given.
> >
> > the same is true for a unified 8k stack or for the 4k/4k split though.
> > Ok sure there's a 1.5Kb difference on the one side.. (but a 2Kb gain on
> > the other side)
>
> I was always in favour of 8K process stacks + irq stacks. Works great on x86-64.

Jörn did some analysis regarding possible call paths > 3k.

Our goal is to achieve a stack usage < 3k with a safety margin of 1k.

The problem is similar no matter whether you have 4k or 8k stacks, but
with 4k stacks you have the additional benefits of order 0 allocations
and less memory usage.

> -Andi

cu
Adrian

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