Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:13:15 -0700 | | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | | Subject | Re: [1/6] make stack size configurable (was: Re: [-mm patch] i386: enable 4k stacks by default) |
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On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:40:47AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Make more stack sizes configurable, adding options for deeper stacks. >> This is largely for differential diagnosis in cases where stack overflows >> are suspected of silently corrupting memory or causing other problems not >> detected immediately.
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 07:10:32PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > I don't think we want anything bigger than 8, if you really need that > for debuggin it's easy enough to hack up on demand.
These were instrumentation patches of such a form. The point of all this was mostly centered around 5/6, which bootmem allocates the various IRQ stacks as mentioned earlier.
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