Re: 2.6.6-rc3-mm2 (4KSTACK)

From: Bill Davidsen
Date: Wed May 12 2004 - 11:13:16 EST


On Tue, 11 May 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > There was some evidence from AKPM (and Arjan AFAIR).
> > [ BTW wasn't the corruption only seen with nvidia module? ]
> > I think we can prevent it by adding something ala 4kstack flag
> > to the module.
>
> "4KSTACKS" already is present in the module version string.
>
> And RHL is shipping now with 4k stacks, so presumably any disasters
> are relatively uncommon...

RHL and kernel.org have a lot of unshared bugs and features,
unfortunately. I take that information as an encouraging proof of concept,
not a waranty that the kernel.org code will behave in a similar way.

--
bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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