On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 10:27:22AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > And what about stack? I'm not sure that everybody would be happy with > > stack in the middle of address space. > > I would, personally. I think that, for very large address spaces, we > should allocate a large block of stack and get rid of the "stack grows > down forever" legacy idea. Then we would never need to worry about > the stack eventually hitting some other allocation. And 2^57 bytes is > hilariously large for a default stack. The stack in the middle of address space can prevent creating other huuuge contiguous mapping. Databases may want this. -- Kirill A. Shutemov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
