Re: unistack: intel kernel stack hack against 2.1.22
Dean Gaudet (dgaudet-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org)
Fri, 24 Jan 1997 15:22:54 -0800 (PST)
If there's really only 900 bytes free on the stack then maybe 8K stacks
are really a good idea. That seems awfully close for comfort. On the
other hand maybe it's just time to go dig through the kernel and find the
culprits that are allocating too much on the stack.
Dean
On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> > the dark side: it's ugly. The stack gets a bit smaller. [...]
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> hmm, those 900 bytes less triggered a few stack overflows on my system ...
> so i guess lets forget about this patch :(
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> [maybe in the future if we move to 8K stacks :)]
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> -- mingo
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