Re: 4k stacks

[Grant Coady]

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 14:12:03 -0700, Frank Sorenson <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Andrew James Wade wrote:
>> I've modified stack.c to handle 4k stacks. It can also provide information
>> for 8k stacks (fwiw) by changing STACK_GRANULARITY.
>> 
>> It found one stack with only 756 bytes left. I hope it's just due to a
>> greedy boot-time function as I'm not running anything particularly exotic.
>> (CIFS & Reiser4).
>
>Yes, it does appear to be a boot-time function.  It eventually becomes
>PID 1, and the stack usage shrinks considerably.
>

Problem I have is the stack poison patch stops box from booting when set 
to 4k stacks.  Seems to imply boot is within 5 pushl's and a return from 
4k?  Reiser3 + SATA on K7 + VIA chipset

Grant.
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