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

From: Michael Buesch
Date: Thu Dec 15 2005 - 19:57:19 EST


On Friday 16 December 2005 01:08, you wrote:
> El Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:04:38 -0700,
> "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:
>
> > apply to kernel code. calls from several of our apps (which use
> > larger than 4K kernel space on a stack) from user space crash -- so do
> > wireless drivers -- and kdb crashes as well with some bugs with 4K stacks
> > turned on when you are trying to debug something.
>
> If you (or other people) don't report those bugs, nobody else except
> you will care about them, I'm afraid.
>
> "My customer says it crashes but I don't want to report it publically".
> What kind of excuse is that? O_o

Your customer runs an -mm kernel on his production systems?
Smash him.
This is about removing 8k support in the -mm kernel, to
find the remaining bugs (if there are any).

--
Greetings Michael.

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