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

Robert Hancock
2005-11-15T04:08:26Z

Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> Why does the kernel need to be limited to 4K? for kernel preemption?

No, because it makes a whole lot of things simpler and more reliable if
the kernel stack is only one page.

>
> Someone needs to fix this. It's busted. It makes porting code between
> Windows and Linux and other OS's difficult to support.

Ease of porting drivers written for other OSes to Linux is clearly not a
high priority for the kernel community..

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