Re: [PATCH 3/3] 2.6.8-rc4-mm1 - UML fixes

[Jeff Dike]

wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx said:
> Out of curiosity, why are you allocating 4*PAGE_SIZE for the stack if
> you're only going to use 2*PAGE_SIZE of it? I saw no other users for
> the rest of ->thread_info offhand. 

Well, that's slightly misleading.  The other two pages (minus the thread_info)
are available for stack if needed.  UML stacks are somewhat larger than the
native kernel stacks because of the userspace signal frames, so I allocate
4 pages for now to be safe.

				Jeff

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