Re: PAGE_SIZE on 64bit and 32bit machines

From: Yoav Artzi
Date: Mon Nov 12 2007 - 11:23:01 EST


I see. Thanks, guys.


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Subject: Re: PAGE_SIZE on 64bit and 32bit machines
From: Kyle McMartin <kyle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Yoav Artzi <yoavar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, November 12, 2007 6:11:06 PM

On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 05:58:08PM +0200, Yoav Artzi wrote:
Looking at the source, I see:

#ifdef CONFIG_4KSTACKS
#define THREAD_SIZE (4096)
#else
#define THREAD_SIZE (8192)
#endif


So if I configure the option CONFIG_4KSTACK, I will get a 4KB kernel stack. Am I missing something here?


This is only on i386 (32-bit x86...)[1] On x86-64, we have 8K kernel
stacks (THREAD_ORDER 1), and 16K irqstacks (IRQSTACK_ORDER 2).

The relevant defines are found in <asm-x86/page_64.h> for x86_64, and
<asm-x86/thread_info_32.h> for i386.

Cheers,
Kyle

1. That is, stack size is only configurable on 32bit.

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