Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

[Rene Herman]

On 07/17/2007 12:53 AM, Ray Lee wrote:

> On 7/16/07, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Any x86-32 path unsafe with 4K stacks is almost certainly unsafe with 8K
> > stacks because the 8K stacks do not have seperate IRQ stack paths, so you
> > have the same space but split. It might be less predictable on 8K stacks
> > but it isn't absent.
>
> Understood, but isn't that an argument pro interrupt stacks, rather
> than one against 8k? wli has a patch to break out the interrupt stack
> feature from the 4k/8k choice.

Yes but it's also an argument that the 4K stacks don't make the _current_ 
situation without CONFIG_4KSTACKS selected worse and given that you trust 
that current situation, that leaves you without your argument :-)

Rene.


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