Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 May 2014 08:36:25 -0700 | Subject | Re: [RFC 2/2] x86_64: expand kernel stack to 16K | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 2:48 AM, Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> wrote: > > If we raise the stack size on x86_64 to 16k, what about i386? > Beside of the fact that most of you consider 32bits as dead and must die... ;)
x86-32 doesn't have nearly the same issue, since a large portion of stack content tends to be pointers and longs. So it's not like it uses half the stack, but a 32-bit environment does use a lot less stack than a 64-bit one.
Linus
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