From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262157AbVFHKEB (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 06:04:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262154AbVFHKEB (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 06:04:01 -0400 Received: from mail.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.232.198]:23171 "EHLO moskovskaya.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262157AbVFHKDl (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 06:03:41 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 12:03:48 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: Alexander Nyberg Cc: Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-dev@namesys.com Subject: Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS Message-ID: <20050608100348.GB331@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <20050607212706.GB7962@stusta.de> <1118180858.956.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1118180858.956.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 7 June 2005 23:47:38 +0200, Alexander Nyberg wrote: > tis 2005-06-07 klockan 23:27 +0200 skrev Adrian Bunk: > > 4Kb kernel stacks are the future on i386, and it seems the problems it > > initially caused are now sorted out. > > > > I'd like to: > > - get a patch into the next -mm that unconditionally enables 4KSTACKS > > - if there won't be new reports of breakages, send a patch to > > completely remove !4KSTACKS for 2.6.13 or 2.6.14 > > > > Combinations of IDE/SCSI with MD/DM (maybe even stacking them ontop of > eachother), NFS and a filesystem in there breaks 4KSTACKS which is a > known issue so you can't just remove it leaving users with no choice. > > This was not even difficult to trigger a while ago and I haven't seen > any stack reduction patches in these areas. Can you send me a backtrace for one such dump? I'd like to use that for some pessimistic checker runs. Jörn -- Good warriors cause others to come to them and do not go to others. -- Sun Tzu