From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756368AbXJDEnS (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 00:43:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751047AbXJDEnJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 00:43:09 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:47613 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750744AbXJDEnI (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 00:43:08 -0400 Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:43:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20071003.214306.41634525.davem@davemloft.net> To: arjan@infradead.org Cc: clameter@sgi.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, travis@sgi.com Subject: Re: [14/18] Configure stack size From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20071003213631.7a047dde@laptopd505.fenrus.org> References: <20071004035935.042951211@sgi.com> <20071004040004.936534357@sgi.com> <20071003213631.7a047dde@laptopd505.fenrus.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1.52 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Arjan van de Ven Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 21:36:31 -0700 > there is still code that does DMA from and to the stack.... > how would this work with virtual allocated stack? That's a bug and must be fixed. There honestly shouldn't be that many examples around. FWIW, there are platforms using a virtually allocated kernel stack already.