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Bodo Eggert a écrit :
> Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> wrote:
>
>> "With some drawbacks" is the point: It has been determined that the
>> drawbacks are heavy enough that the 8KiB stack option should go.
>
> Determined by voodoo and wild guessing.
>
> Let's detect the need for 4K stacks: (I hope I found the correct place)
>
> (Maybe the printk should be completely ifdefed, but I'm not sure)
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>
>
> --- 2.6.14/kernel/fork.c.ori 2005-12-21 19:06:24.000000000 +0100
> +++ 2.6.14/kernel/fork.c 2005-12-21 19:15:23.000000000 +0100
> @@ -168,4 +168,9 @@ static struct task_struct *dup_task_stru
> if (!ti) {
> free_task_struct(tsk);
> + printk(KERN_WARNING, "Can't allocate new task structure"
> +#ifndef CONFIG_4KSTACKS
> + ". Maybe you could benefit from 4K stacks.\n"
> +#endif
> + "\n");
> return NULL;
> }
>
This patch is not OK but for i386 architecture.
For example, x86_64 cannot use a 4K stack, it needs a 8KB stack (so a order-1
allocation that may fail)
Eric
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