On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Dave Hansen wrote:

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> On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 12:17 -0700, Eric Munson wrote:
> >=20
> > This patch stack introduces a personality flag that indicates the
> > kernel
> > should setup the stack as a hugetlbfs-backed region. A userspace
> > utility
> > may set this flag then exec a process whose stack is to be backed by
> > hugetlb pages.
>=20
> I didn't see it mentioned here, but these stacks are fixed-size, right?
> They can't actually grow and are fixed in size at exec() time, right?
>=20
> -- Dave

The stack VMA is a fixed size but the pages will be faulted in as needed.

--=20
Eric B Munson
IBM Linux Technology Center
ebmunson@us.ibm.com