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

Andrea Arcangeli
2007-07-19T01:34:18Z

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 01:39:55AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > About 4k stacks I was generally against them, much better to fail in
> > fork than to risk corruption. The per-irq stack part is great feature
> > instead (too bad it wasn't enabled for the safer 8k stacks).
>
> 8K stacks without IRQ stacks are not "safer" so I don't understand your
> comment ?

Ouch, see the reports about 4k stack crashes. I agree they're not
safe w/o irq stacks (like on x86-64), but they're generally safer.