Re: [PATCH resubmit] do_mount: reduce stack consumption

From: Al Viro
Date: Fri Nov 04 2005 - 06:48:15 EST


On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 11:50:26AM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> From: Andreas Herrmann <aherrman@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This is a resubmit of Andreas' patch that reduces stackframe usage in
> do_mount. Problem is that without this patch we get a kernel stack
> overflow if we run with 4k stacks (s390 31 bit mode).
> See original stack back trace below and Andreas' patch and analysis
> here:
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0410.3/1844.html

NAK. Rationale: too ugly.
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