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SubjectRe: [RFC] [PATCH 0/5 V2] Huge page backed user-space stacks
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On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 12:17 -0700, Eric Munson wrote:
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> This patch stack introduces a personality flag that indicates the
> kernel
> should setup the stack as a hugetlbfs-backed region. A userspace
> utility
> may set this flag then exec a process whose stack is to be backed by
> hugetlb pages.

I didn't see it mentioned here, but these stacks are fixed-size, right?
They can't actually grow and are fixed in size at exec() time, right?

-- Dave



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