Enlarging Kernel Stack (doesn't this question ever go away?)

[David C. Chiu]

Thanks for the tip, however the problem isn't that we are allocating
large stack variables but we have deeply nested calls...

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Malek [mailto:dan at embeddededge.com]
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 3:06 PM
To: Tom Rini
Cc: David C. Chiu; linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Enlarging Kernel Stack (doesn't this question ever go
away?)


Tom Rini wrote:

> Why are you trying to enlarge the stack?  This question never goes
away
> since it's almost always wrong to enlarge the stack...

That's correct......you should be allocating space with vmalloc() and
just hanging on to a pointer that you vfree() later.


	-- Dan

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