From: Adrian Bunk This patch enables 4k stacks by default. 4k stacks have become a well-tested feature used fore a long time in Fedora and even in RHEL 4. There are no known problems in in-kernel code with 4k stacks still present after Neil's patch that went into -mm nearly two months ago. Defaulting to 4k stacks in -mm kernel will give some more testing coverage and should show whether there are really no problems left. Keeping the option for now should make the people happy who want to use the experimental -mm kernel but don't trust the well-tested 4k stacks. Additionally, make it more obvious that available stack space is not being halved. Signed-off-by: Grant Coady Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- arch/i386/Kconfig.debug | 7 ++++--- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/i386/Kconfig.debug~i386-enable-4k-stacks-by-default arch/i386/Kconfig.debug --- 25/arch/i386/Kconfig.debug~i386-enable-4k-stacks-by-default Tue Jan 17 16:24:56 2006 +++ 25-akpm/arch/i386/Kconfig.debug Tue Jan 17 16:24:56 2006 @@ -62,14 +62,15 @@ config DEBUG_RODATA If in doubt, say "N". config 4KSTACKS - bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb" - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL + bool "Use 4Kb + 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb" if DEBUG_KERNEL + default y help If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option - will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace. + will also use separate 4Kb IRQ stacks to compensate for the + reduced stackspace. config X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG bool _