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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v7][RFC]: mutex: implement adaptive spinning
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 07:58:41 +0100
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Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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> foo()
> {
> 	char a[1000];
> }
> 
> bar()
> {
> 	char a[1000];
> }
> 
> zot()
> {
> 	foo();
> 	bar();
> }
> 
> uses 2000 bytes of stack.
> And with the right compiler version.

I believe that's fixed in newer gcc versions.

For old gccs we might indeed need to add noinlines though.

-Andi

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