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

Adrian Bunk
2005-12-16T15:58:24Z

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 04:35:03PM +0100, Diego Calleja wrote:
> El Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:04:25 +0100,
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> escribió:
>
> > My count of bug reports for problems with 4k stacks after Neil's patch
> > went into -mm is still at 0.
> >
> > Either there are no problems left or noone pays attention to them since
> > disabling 4k stacks "fixed" the problem.
> >
> > In both cases there's no reason against applying my patch.
>
> I know, but there's too much resistance to the "pure" 4kb patch. The
> 8 KB patch does the same thing (enables 4kb stacks) and at the same
> time the 8kb groupies can't flamewar you for it, it covers akpm's

I have no problems with people flaming me.

I had problems if people would actually find technical reasons where my
patch breaks in-kernel code. ;-)

> concerns, it puts some pressure on the ndiswrapper guys and leaves
> time for the broadcom driver developers to finish, merge and push
> to the distributions their driver. The 8kb config option can be
> removed in the future when we're sure that it's 100% safe (neil
> brown's patch isn''t a good sign). It makes every happy IMO ;)

Neil's patch fixes the last known poroblems.

My count of bug reports for problems with 4k stacks after Neil's patch
went into -mm is still at 0.

cu
Adrian

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