Bill Irwin wrote: > > It's a shame that the resource scalability implications of vmallocspace > allocations prevent this from being useful in production. One could, in > principle, establish guard pages within ZONE_NORMAL, but for 4KB stacks > it's somewhat awkward to dredge up 3 contigous pages, and 4 defeats the > purpose. Alignment with 8KB stacks wants 2 contiguous order 1 pages that > span an order 2 page boundary. I guess I could rewrite the page allocator > (again), but people seem to feel safest with the buddy allocator affairs. > > BTW, did the original patches for this prove to be of any use to you? >
No, I never tried them. Seems like I never get to anything these days but answering bug reports and merging fixes... Putting the feature in-kernel means I might get to use it though. :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
