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From: "Ray Lee" <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?
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On 7/17/07, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:15:28 -0700
> "Ray Lee" <ray-lk@madrabbit.org> wrote:
> > Heh :-). No, it's not a question of trust. First and foremost, it's
> > that there are still users who say that they can crash a current
> > 4k+interrupt stacks kernel, while the 8k without interrupt stacks is
> > fine.
>
> You forgot "most of the time".

Yeah, fair enough.

> Its statistically less likely, which
> merely means its evilly hard to debug

Not being able to debug the cases that occur (and the fact that
they're rare, as you're pointing out) is as much of a problem as the
crashes themselves. 8k + IRQ stacks with a warning when 4k of process
stack is exceeded would seem like a reasonable first step to making 4k
a palatable default.

Ray