Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks

[Andi Kleen]

On Wednesday 16 November 2005 21:46, Wed, 16 Nov 2005 21:46:05 +0100 wrote:
> El Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:03:34 -0500,
> Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@xxxxxxxxx> escribió:
> 
> > We could implement a stack guard page for the transition period, so that 
> 
> CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW doesn't do that but it looks useful too.
> 
> Does CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW harm performance a lot? (doesn't 
> look like that for a newbie's eye)

No, it's very cheap. In fact it could be probably enabled by default.

-Andi

P.S.: Can you please chose a less irritating realname?

 
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