Re: [RFC 2/2] x86_64: expand kernel stack to 16K

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu May 29 2014 - 01:17:52 EST


On 05/28/2014 07:42 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> And Minchan running out of stack is at least _partly_ due to his debug
> options (that DEBUG_PAGEALLOC thing as an extreme example, but I
> suspect there's a few other options there that generate more bloated
> data structures too too).
>

I have wondered if a larger stack would make sense as a debug option.
I'm just worried it will be abused.

-hpa


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