Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

[Benjamin LaHaise]

On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 12:26:41AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> As someone who gets to read a lot of bug reports from end-users,
> this thing is far from perfect judging by the number of tainted
> oopses I've seen, and not all of them look like stack size issues.

It would make sense to use 4KB pages with a guard page to catch unexpected 
stack overflows.  Then we'd at least catch some of the binary only modules 
with Oops that clearly show who is at fault.

> Helping the cause of binary (or part binary) solutions doesn't solve anything.
> It brings nothing but unsolvable problems, and upset users when their problems
> can't get fixed.

Definately.

		-ben
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