I searched the archives of the list for discussion on this topic and couldn't find anything. Can anyone tell me why the Fedora 2.6 kernels are configured for 4K stacks?
A little googling turned up this technical explanation:
<http://lwn.net/Articles/84583/>
I'm unclear why the pages need to be physically contiguous, though. Is this a limitation in the x86 architecture?
I'm also curious if there are any good static analysis tools that can be run against the kernel source to compute worst-case stack depth? Surely someone in the gcc group has come up with such a critter?
