Re: vmalloced stacks on x86_64?

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Oct 25 2014 - 16:24:36 EST



* Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Is there any good reason not to use vmalloc for x86_64 stacks?

In addition to what hpa mentioned, __pa()/__va() on-kstack DMA
gets tricky, for legacy drivers. (Not sure how many of these are
left though.)

Thanks,

Ingo
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