From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268390AbUHLEld (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 00:41:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268381AbUHLEld (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 00:41:33 -0400 Received: from [12.177.129.25] ([12.177.129.25]:18116 "EHLO ccure.user-mode-linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268398AbUHLEkZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 00:40:25 -0400 Message-Id: <200408120541.i7C5fIJd010913@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.1-RC1 To: William Lee Irwin III cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] 2.6.8-rc4-mm1 - UML fixes In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 Aug 2004 20:30:12 PDT." <20040812033012.GE11200@holomorphy.com> References: <200408120415.i7C4FWJd010494@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> <20040812033012.GE11200@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 01:41:18 -0400 From: Jeff Dike Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org wli@holomorphy.com said: > Out of curiosity, why are you allocating 4*PAGE_SIZE for the stack if > you're only going to use 2*PAGE_SIZE of it? I saw no other users for > the rest of ->thread_info offhand. Well, that's slightly misleading. The other two pages (minus the thread_info) are available for stack if needed. UML stacks are somewhat larger than the native kernel stacks because of the userspace signal frames, so I allocate 4 pages for now to be safe. Jeff