On Tue, Jun 06 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 00:05:07 +0200
> Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> > * Laurent Riffard <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > >> Results:
> > > >> - 2.6.17-rc4-mm3 with 4K stack works fine (this is the latest good 4K-kernel).
> > > >> - 2.6.17-rc5-mm3 with 4K stack crashes, the stack seems to be corrupted.
> > > >
> > > > that's vanilla mm3, or mm3 patched with extra lockdep patches? If it's
> > > > patched then you should try vanilla mm3 too.
> > >
> > > It was vanilla mm3.
> >
> > ok, i'll check the stack impact of the block_dev.c changes tomorrow.
> >
>
> Note that Laurent is also passing through ide_cdrom_packet(), which has a
> `struct request' on the stack. The kernel does this in a lot of places,
> and at 168 bytes on x86, it'd really be best if we were to dynamically
> allocate these things.
That's an old peeve of mine, on-stack requests... It's nasty from
several angles, stack usage just being one of them. Perhaps I'll give it
a go for 2.6.18 and add checks for request being thrown at the block
layer which didn't originate from get_request().
--
Jens Axboe
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