Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks

From: Dave Jones
Date: Thu Dec 15 2005 - 18:16:41 EST


On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 11:30:00PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> An how many weird crashes with _different_ causes have you seen?
> It could be that there are only _very_ few problems that noone really
> debugs brcause disabling 4k stacks fixes the issue.

the block layer issue that Neil had patches for was the only one
that rings any bells for me[*] (and the only one in Fedora bugzilla
that anyone has actually hit -- and that's 2-3 people out of
a *lot* of users).

Dave

[*] Plus a few XFS ones, but that's been a lost cause wrt stack usage
for a long time -- people were reporting overflows there before we
enabled 4K stacks.

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