From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268595AbUHLPz1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:55:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268598AbUHLPz0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:55:26 -0400 Received: from [12.177.129.25] ([12.177.129.25]:30147 "EHLO ccure.user-mode-linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268595AbUHLPzW (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:55:22 -0400 Message-Id: <200408121656.i7CGu8JA002731@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 23:50:47 PDT." <20040812065047.GG11200@holomorphy.com> References: <200408120415.i7C4FWJd010494@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> <20040812033012.GE11200@holomorphy.com> <200408120541.i7C5fIJd010913@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> <20040812065047.GG11200@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 12:56:08 -0400 From: Jeff Dike Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org wli@holomorphy.com said: > This might confuse CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, which uses THREAD_SIZE to > detect the end of the kernel stack in store_stackinfo() in mm/slab.c > and kstack_end() in include/linux/sched.h, and the sizing heuristic > for max_threads in fork_init(). I think it's OK. UML isn't lying about its stack size, just that snippet of code is misleading. > Also, how is this meant to interoperate with CONFIG_KERNEL_STACK_ORDER? > It seems to ignore the setting from the config option. I'm going to fix that. For this patch I just did the quickest thing and reverted back to what was there before. Jeff