Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Apr 1999 19:17:00 +0200 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: stack overruns [was: Re: "Please HELP"-crash] |
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On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 06:00:09PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 1) at system startup one huge block (16 kB per task slot, (8 kB stack + > > 8 kB guard pages)) is vm_alloc'ed. The area must be 8 kB aligned. > > 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.
Ralf
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