Re: [GIT PULL] arm64 fixes for 3.11

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Fri Jul 26 2013 - 19:48:47 EST


On Fri, 2013-07-26 at 12:54 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> *Some* other 64-bit architectures do 16k stack sizes. But neither
> x86-64 nor powerpc do, afaik. Instead, they do irq stacks, which is
> generally a better idea than having one big stack.

Sadly you over estimated us here :-) We do 16K *and* irq stacks on
64-bit ... Remember our ABI with it's 112 bytes minimum per frame ?

It's been a while since I've last audited our actual usage mind you, we
*might* be able to reduce it but at this stage, since our typical
configs use a 64K base page size, it's not a big deal (ie, it's not an
order-N allocation).

Cheers,
Ben.


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