Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:52:32 +0200 | | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...? |
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On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 10:23:59AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Still don't follow. How is "exceeds stack space but less likely to be > noticed" safer.
Statistically speaking it clearly is. The reason is probably that the irq theoretical issue happens only on large boxes with lots of reentrant irqs. Not all irqs are reentrant, not all systems runs lots of irqs at the same time etc.. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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