Re: 2.6.6-rc3, nvidia.o and CONFIG_4KSTACKS

From: Marc-Christian Petersen
Date: Sun May 02 2004 - 08:16:55 EST


On Sunday 02 May 2004 14:56, Peter Hicks wrote:

Hi Peter,

> Just a quickie - the NVidia driver kills my machine when running 2.6.6-rc3
> with CONFIG_4KSTACKS turned on.
>
> My fault for choosing the card. Any chance of a warning in the help text
> for that option?

ack.

ciao, Marc
# 2.6.4-WOLK2.1

--- old/arch/i386/Kconfig 2004-04-11 12:39:26.000000000 +0200
+++ new/arch/i386/Kconfig 2004-04-11 12:40:35.000000000 +0200
@@ -1504,6 +1504,8 @@ config 4KSTACKS
on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option
will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace.

+ Do NOT select this if you intend to use NVIDIA binary only modules!
+
config SCHEDSTATS
bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
depends on PROC_FS