Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

[Alexander Nyberg]

tis 2005-06-07 klockan 23:27 +0200 skrev Adrian Bunk:
> 4Kb kernel stacks are the future on i386, and it seems the problems it 
> initially caused are now sorted out.
> 
> I'd like to:
> - get a patch into the next -mm that unconditionally enables 4KSTACKS
> - if there won't be new reports of breakages, send a patch to
>   completely remove !4KSTACKS for 2.6.13 or 2.6.14
> 

Combinations of IDE/SCSI with MD/DM (maybe even stacking them ontop of
eachother), NFS and a filesystem in there breaks 4KSTACKS which is a
known issue so you can't just remove it leaving users with no choice.

This was not even difficult to trigger a while ago and I haven't seen
any stack reduction patches in these areas.

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