Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 3 Aug 2004 00:59:52 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | [2.6 patch] let 4KSTACKS depend on EXPERIMENTAL (fwd) |
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Hi Andrew,
I'd like to see the patch below included in 2.6.8 .
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Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 21:02:41 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> To: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>, "Jeffrey E. Hundstad" <jeffrey.hundstad@mnsu.edu>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Steve Lord <lord@xfs.org>, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com, Cahya Wirawan <cwirawan@email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [2.6 patch] let 4KSTACKS depend on EXPERIMENTAL
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 08:30:40AM +1000, Nathan Scott wrote: >... > Adrian wrote: > > 2.6 is a stable kernel series used in production environments. > > > > Regarding Linus' tree, it's IMHO the best solution to work around it > > this way until all issues are sorted out. > > I'm not really convinced - the EXPERIMENTAL marking should > be plenty of a deterent to folks in production environments. > There are reports of stack overruns on other filesystems as > well with 4KSTACKS, so doesn't seem worthwhile to me to do > this just for XFS.
OK, below is a patch that only adds a dependency of 4KSTACKS on EXPERIMENTAL.
Considering that not all issues with 4kb stacks are currently corrected, this patch should IMHO go in 2.6.8 .
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
--- linux-2.6.8-rc2-mm1-full/arch/i386/Kconfig.old 2004-08-01 20:59:02.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.8-rc2-mm1-full/arch/i386/Kconfig 2004-08-01 20:59:46.000000000 +0200 @@ -1474,7 +1474,8 @@ to solve problems without frame pointers. config 4KSTACKS - bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb" + bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb (EXPERIMENTAL)" + depends on EXPERIMENTAL help If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates
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