[parisc-linux] [PATCH] fix arbitrary limits on stack size

Matthew Wilcox willy@debian.org
Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:36:21 +0100


On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 07:30:29PM +0200, Joel Soete wrote:
> Ok Jame, Now I have a 32bits 2.6.0-test1-pa1 running so I come back to you.
> 
> No problem to apply it :) , so I can launch the compile.
> 
> Just a question in the mean time: it doesn't seens that your patch take care
> of CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP in related files?

um, the stack continues to grow up.  it's just a question of where the
stack starts at.  before, it was at top of memory - stack limit, now it's
at task_unmapped_base and mmaps grow down from the top of memory.

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