Re: [PATCH 6.4 00/28] 6.4.1-rc1 review - hppa argument list too long

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 3 Jul 2023 at 00:08, Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Great, that patch fixes it!

Yeah, I was pretty sure this was it, but it's good to have it
confirmed. Committed.

> I wonder if you want to
> #define VM_STACK_EARLY VM_GROWSDOWN
> even for the case where the stack grows down too (instead of 0),
> just to make clear that in both cases the stack goes downwards initially.

No, that wouldn't work for the simple reason that the special bits in
VM_STACK_INCOMPLETE_SETUP are always cleared after the stack setup is
done.

So if we added VM_GROWSDOWN to those early bits in general, the bit
would then be cleared even when that wasn't the intent.

Yes, yes, we could change the VM_STACK_INCOMPLETE_SETUP logic to only
clear some of the bits in the end, but the end result would be
practically the same: we'd still have to do different things for
grows-up vs grows-down cases, so the difference might as well be here
in the VM_STACK_EARLY bit.

                 Linus