Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: stack overruns [was: Re: "Please HELP"-crash] | Date | Thu, 29 Apr 1999 22:49:52 +0100 (BST) |
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> > You can't vmalloc the stack without changing drivers that assume the stack > > is DMAable. Thats a 2.3.x thing but yes. > > Which drivers? For machines without hardware cache coherence this is > plain a bug.
Yes. This is old x86 drivers mostly. Much the same way as a lot used static data to DMA to/from until modules came in then all promptly broke. Its a bug, a legacy thing. It has to die anyway
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