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    SubjectRe: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?
    On 17/07/07, William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
    > At some point in the past, I wrote:
    > >> If at some point one of the pro-4k stacks crowd can prove that all
    > >> code paths are safe, or introduce another viable alternative (such as
    > >> Matt's idea for extending the stack dynamically), then removing the 8k
    > >> stacks option makes sense.
    >
    > On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 11:54:38PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
    > > Any x86-32 path unsafe with 4K stacks is almost certainly unsafe with 8K
    > > stacks because the 8K stacks do not have seperate IRQ stack paths, so you
    > > have the same space but split. It might be less predictable on 8K stacks
    > > but it isn't absent.
    >
    > At hch's suggestion I rewrote the separate IRQ stack configurability
    > patch into one making IRQ stacks mandatory and unconfigurable, and
    > hence enabled with 8K stacks.
    >
    For what it's worth, that sounds good to me - like something that we
    would want merged.

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