Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:33:58 +0200
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > 8K stacks without IRQ stacks are not "safer" so I don't understand your
> > comment ?
> 
> Ouch, see the reports about 4k stack crashes. I agree they're not
> safe w/o irq stacks (like on x86-64), but they're generally safer.

Still don't follow. How is "exceeds stack space but less likely to be
noticed" safer.

Alan
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