Re: [PATCH 2/2] UML - Fix kernel stack size on x86_64

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 11:11:34 -0400 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 06:20:24PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > If you do
> > 
> > -	int "Kernel stack size order"
> > +	int
> > 
> > then this rule will no longer be offered to the user and `make oldconfig'
> > (actually anythingconfig) will override whatever happens to be in .config
> > for KERNEL_STACK_ORDER.
> 
> You're saying that making an option user-visible changes whether
> *config overrides .config?  That's non-intuitive.

Yeah, I thought so.  I discovered it by comparing the behaviour of your
patch against the behaviour of CONFIG_BASE_SMALL, fiddling around and
then saying "wtf".

> > I'm not sure if that's actually what you want, but if the current situation
> > is that a random CONFIG_KERNEL_STACK_ORDER=0 left over in .config will
> > break the kernel at runtime then I think something sterner than editing
> > defconfig is needed?
> 
> That's a good point, but I think I do want it user-visible.  If
> someone sees someething I suspect to be a stack overflow, I'd like to
> be able to tell them to bump KERNEL_STACK_ORDER and see if the problem
> goes away.
> 
> As for something sterner, it turns out that Kbuild provides some
> support for this.  So, drop the previous patch in favor of this one:
> 
> Force KERNEL_STACK_ORDER to be at least 1 on UML/x86_64.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
> --
>  arch/um/Kconfig |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.21-mm/arch/um/Kconfig
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.21-mm.orig/arch/um/Kconfig	2007-06-06 09:28:13.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux-2.6.21-mm/arch/um/Kconfig	2007-06-06 11:08:49.000000000 -0400
> @@ -278,6 +278,7 @@ config HIGHMEM
>  config KERNEL_STACK_ORDER
>  	int "Kernel stack size order"
>  	default 1 if 64BIT
> +	range 1 10 if 64BIT
>  	default 0 if !64BIT
>  	help
>  	This option determines the size of UML kernel stacks.  They will

heh, fair enough.