On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 10:56 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > We've got: > > > > #if defined(CONFIG_SMP) && defined(CONFIG_64BIT) > > static char temp_stack[10240]; > > #endif > > > > and: > > > > #ifdef CONFIG_SMP > > stack_start.sp = temp_stack + 4096; > > #endif > > > > ..which suggests we use at most 4k of the stack? > > I guess someone (probably me) was "playing it safe" -- not exactly > remembering if stack grows down or up. I guess it should be safe to > change it... will do that. > Pavel I've already got a patch, I was just wondering if there was some obscure architectural reason for it that I wasn't aware of. x86: trim ACPI sleep stack buffer x86_64 SMP suspend to RAM uses a 10k temporary stack for saving the kernel state, but only 4k of it is used. Shrink it to 4k. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> diff -r 73d55a1b6c10 arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c --- a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c Wed Oct 08 14:48:45 2008 -0500 +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c Thu Oct 09 11:51:54 2008 -0500 @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ static unsigned long acpi_realmode; #if defined(CONFIG_SMP) && defined(CONFIG_64BIT) -static char temp_stack[10240]; +static char temp_stack[4096]; #endif /** -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html