Re: [PATCH] Restrict stack space reservation to rlimit

From: Anton Blanchard
Date: Mon Feb 08 2010 - 00:12:39 EST



Hi,

> Why do we need page size independent stack size? It seems to have
> compatibility breaking risk.

I don't think so. The current behaviour is clearly wrong, we dont need a
16x larger stack just because you went from a 4kB to a 64kB base page
size. The user application stack usage is the same in both cases.

Anton
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