Subject: Re: [RFC][WIP][PATCH] Add IRQSTACKS to ppc32

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:03:34 +1000

On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 09:23 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:37:50AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> >  config IRQSTACKS
> >  	bool "Use separate kernel stacks when processing interrupts"
> > -	depends on PPC64
> 
> Why do we have this as a user-selectable option?  It should be on by
> default on 32 or 64bit.

History maybe ? In the early days it was a bit "experimental" (we had a
couple of issues that popped up with some thread flags not being
properly recovered etc...). Nowadays, I agree it should not be an
option.

Ben.