Pekka Enberg writes: > Yeah, I too have wondered why some architectures use kmalloc() whereas > others use the page allocator. Is THREAD_SIZE significantly smaller > than PAGE_SIZE for those? 64-bit powerpc uses 16k kernel stacks and either 4k or 64k page size. If the page size is 64k then we don't want to allocate a whole page for a kernel stack. Paul. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
