Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:17:13 -0200 | | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/6] 2.4.19-rc1 stack reduction patches |
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 12:18:31PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 05:49 -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 08:39:03AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 09:35 -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > > > Hi Marcelo, > > > > > > > > I re-worked all the applicable stack reduction patches for 2.4.19-rc1. > > > > > > is it really worth doing this sort of thing for 2.4 still? It's a matter > > > of risk versus gain... not sure this sort of thing is still worth it in > > > the deep-maintenance 2.4 tree > > > > Well it seems the s390 fellows are seeing stack overflows, which are serious > > enough. Have you noticed that? > > well.. is anyone using 2.4.2X mainline on s390, or is ibm making their > s390 customers use vendor kernels instead? > (the people brave enough to not use those kernels might very well be > using 2.6 by now) > > Just trying to get a feeling for who if anyone will benefit inclusion of > such patches, because if that is "just about nobody" then they might > well not be worth the risk.
I understand your concern and appreciate it.
I dont expect anyone to be using v2.4 mainline on S390 (you need external patches to get it to work anyway) either :)
But the stack growth patches are also useful for other architectures I assume, its pretty hard to get them wrong (ie you're simple changing stack to kmalloc()'ed memory, the code is essentially the same).
No?
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