Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:51:16 +0100 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks |
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On Wed, 16 November 2005 13:57:36 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > I think it's in general risky. It's like balancing without a safety > net. Might be a nice hobby, but for real production you want a safety > net. That's simple because there are likely some code paths through > the code that need more stack space and that are rarely hit (and > cannot be easily found by static analysis, e.g. if they involve > indirect pointers or particularly complex configuration setups).
It isn't that hard to find such places. Trouble is that you find so many of them and it takes quite a while to go through them all. Years is a good unit for "quite a while".
Jörn
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