Re: should there still be arch-specific 4KSTACKS support?

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On 24/06/12 04:51, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Broadening the audience...

On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  via some convoluted logic, i ended up doing the following search:

$ grep -r 4KSTACKS *
arch/sh/configs/r7785rp_defconfig:CONFIG_4KSTACKS=y
arch/sh/Kconfig.debug:config 4KSTACKS
arch/sh/include/asm/thread_info.h:#if defined(CONFIG_4KSTACKS)
arch/mn10300/include/asm/thread_info.h:#ifdef CONFIG_4KSTACKS
arch/m68k/Kconfig.machine:config 4KSTACKS
arch/m68k/configs/m5208evb_defconfig:# CONFIG_4KSTACKS is not set
arch/m68k/configs/m5275evb_defconfig:# CONFIG_4KSTACKS is not set
arch/m68k/configs/m5475evb_defconfig:# CONFIG_4KSTACKS is not set
arch/m68k/include/asm/thread_info.h:#ifdef CONFIG_4KSTACKS
arch/c6x/include/asm/thread_info.h:#ifdef CONFIG_4KSTACKS
drivers/lguest/interrupts_and_traps.c:   * Depending on the CONFIG_4KSTACKS option, the Guest can have one or
kernel/lockdep.c:        * hardirq contexts (such as on 4KSTACKS), so only
$

  so even though 4KSTACKS support was officially removed in June of
2010:

$ git show dcfa7262

there's still traces of it, some of it obviously harmless, leftover
cruft, but it would appear that both sh and m68k still provide a
4KSTACKS config option.

  how much of that can be tossed as useless?

Well, it still works on non-mmu m68k. Yes, I am aware of the issues,
but for those types of small memory non-mmu systems 4k stacks is a
saving. And those types of systems don't tend to use the parts of
the kernel that have been known to want lots of kernel stack.

But if opposition was incredibly strong to having anything support
4k stacks, I probably won't loose any sleep over it being removed
for m68k.

Regards
Greg


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