On 02/22/2017 09:06 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-02-22 at 17:25 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the detailed explanation.
>>
>> The patches look fine, so I don't see any reason why we wouldn't merge
>> this. I might make the config option depend on EXPERT, but th
On 02/22/2017 07:25 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Hamish Martin writes:
>> This patch series adds the ability to configure the THREAD_SHIFT value and
>> thereby alter the stack size on powerpc systems. We are particularly
>> interested
>> in configuring for a 32k stack on PPC64.
> ...
>>
>> For i
On Wed, 2017-02-22 at 17:25 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>
> Thanks for the detailed explanation.
>
> The patches look fine, so I don't see any reason why we wouldn't merge
> this. I might make the config option depend on EXPERT, but that's just
> cosmetic.
>
>
> You're right about the differ
Hamish Martin writes:
> This patch series adds the ability to configure the THREAD_SHIFT value and
> thereby alter the stack size on powerpc systems. We are particularly
> interested
> in configuring for a 32k stack on PPC64.
...
>
> For instance for a 70 frame stack, the architecture overhead ju
On Tue, 2017-02-21 at 13:51 +0100, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> For now it has only been used for little-endian kernel and
> applications,
> but according to messages that I have seen on the list, switching the
> kernel
> to Elf V2 should be possible.
I don't think the toolchain "supports" ELFv2 on B
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 09:24:38AM +1300, Hamish Martin wrote:
> This patch series adds the ability to configure the THREAD_SHIFT value and
> thereby alter the stack size on powerpc systems. We are particularly
> interested
> in configuring for a 32k stack on PPC64.
>
> Using an NXP T2081 (e6500
