Re: [PATCH] x86-32: always use irq stacks

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Jun 16 2010 - 03:33:05 EST



* Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 07:56:09AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > ping? This just came up again as a side-issue in the direct reclaim thread.
> > > x86-32 really is the only one out there still having this compared to the
> > > other common architetures like x86-64, powerpc and s390.
> >
> > We should also make 8K stacks the default on 32-bit. I.e. remove all the
> > Kconfig distinctions and make the stack model similar on 32-bit and 64-bit
> > x86.
>
> Sounds fine to me. Do you want an additional patch for that or a respin
> to include it in one patch?

Two patches would be fine too - gives people something more finegrained to
bisect to, should there be any problems.

Thanks,

Ingo
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