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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/devfs/base.c
Date: 4 Jun 2001 23:10:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9fht4j$cce$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106031652090.32451-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> <E156o6c-0005AB-00@the-village.bc.nu> <200106040707.f5477ET11421@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> <m2elt011y6.fsf@sympatico.ca>

Followup to:  <m2elt011y6.fsf@sympatico.ca>
By author:    Bill Pringlemeir <bpringle@sympatico.ca>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> There was a discussion on comp.arch.embedded about bounded stack use.
> It is fairly easy to calculate the stack usage for call trees, but
> much more difficult for `DAGs'.  Ie, a recursive functions etc.
> 

It's trivial to calculate for DAGs -- directed acyclic graphs.  It's
when the "acyclic" constraint is violated that you have problems!

	-hpa
-- 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-06-05  6:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-27 10:12 [PATCH] fs/devfs/base.c Akash Jain
2001-05-27 13:21 ` Richard Gooch
2001-05-28 14:43   ` Maximum size of automatic allocation? (was: [PATCH] fs/devfs/base.c) Daniel Phillips
2001-06-03 23:55   ` [PATCH] fs/devfs/base.c Linus Torvalds
2001-06-04  0:03     ` Richard Gooch
2001-06-04  6:44     ` Alan Cox
2001-06-04  7:07       ` Richard Gooch
2001-06-04 19:26         ` Bill Pringlemeir
2001-06-04 19:39           ` Kernel Stack usage [was: [PATCH] fs/devfs/base.c] Bill Pringlemeir
2001-06-05  6:10           ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-06-05  6:56             ` [PATCH] fs/devfs/base.c Alan Cox
2001-06-05 11:37               ` Andrew Morton
2001-06-05 21:38               ` Pavel Machek
2001-06-04 10:09       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-06-05  1:41       ` Dawson R Engler
2001-06-05  8:49       ` Ingo Molnar
2001-06-04 20:15     ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-05  4:24       ` Paul Mackerras

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