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John Cherry wrote:

>The new "errors" are from reiser4 code and they all appear to be...
>
>fs/reiser4/reiser4.h:18:2: #error "Please turn 4k stack off"
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>
zam, can you or Mr. Demidov work on using kmalloc to reduce stack usage?

Andrew suggested that for statically sized objects kmalloc is quite fast 
(one instruction I think he said), so my objection to kmallocing a lot 
has faded.