Re: [PATCH 0/6] 2.4.19-rc1 stack reduction patches

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Tue Jan 11 2005 - 06:19:39 EST


On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 05:49 -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 08:39:03AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 09:35 -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> > > Hi Marcelo,
> > >
> > > I re-worked all the applicable stack reduction patches for 2.4.19-rc1.
> >
> > is it really worth doing this sort of thing for 2.4 still? It's a matter
> > of risk versus gain... not sure this sort of thing is still worth it in
> > the deep-maintenance 2.4 tree
>
> Well it seems the s390 fellows are seeing stack overflows, which are serious
> enough. Have you noticed that?

well.. is anyone using 2.4.2X mainline on s390, or is ibm making their
s390 customers use vendor kernels instead?
(the people brave enough to not use those kernels might very well be
using 2.6 by now)

Just trying to get a feeling for who if anyone will benefit inclusion of
such patches, because if that is "just about nobody" then they might
well not be worth the risk.


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