From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750807AbVLPUJE (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:09:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751336AbVLPUJE (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:09:04 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:18389 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750807AbVLPUJC (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:09:02 -0500 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks From: Arjan van de Ven To: Alan Cox Cc: Michael Buesch , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Kyle Moffett , Adrian Bunk , akpm@osdl.org, Diego Calleja In-Reply-To: <1134763370.28761.61.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20051215212447.GR23349@stusta.de> <20051216163503.289d491e.diegocg@gmail.com> <632A9CF3-7F07-44D6-BFB4-8EAA272AF3E5@mac.com> <200512161723.19965.mbuesch@freenet.de> <1134763370.28761.61.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:08:57 +0100 Message-Id: <1134763738.2992.72.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.8 (--) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.0.4 on pentafluge.infradead.org summary: Content analysis details: (-2.8 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.8 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 20:02 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Gwe, 2005-12-16 at 17:23 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > > Now, I want to test bcm43xx on 4k stacks. But only have a > > ppc32 machine with such a broadcom card. ppc32 has 8k stacks. > > How am I supposed to test the driver for 4kstack conformance? > > Unless you've been writing fairly careless code putting a lot of objects > on stack a driver is going to work fine with 4K stacks. there is also "make checkstack" that works on many architectures, and lists offenders. If you're clean there it's very likely you're very ok ;)