Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

Alan Cox
2007-07-16T22:49:05Z

> If at some point one of the pro-4k stacks crowd can prove that all
> code paths are safe, or introduce another viable alternative (such as
> Matt's idea for extending the stack dynamically), then removing the 8k
> stacks option makes sense.

Any x86-32 path unsafe with 4K stacks is almost certainly unsafe with 8K
stacks because the 8K stacks do not have seperate IRQ stack paths, so you
have the same space but split. It might be less predictable on 8K stacks
but it isn't absent.