Linux Kernel Daily: Parisc Stability and Cleanup Fixes
A single Parisc architecture pull merged September 24 focuses on 64-bit stability, led by a larger 32 kilobyte kernel stack to avoid crashes, plus boot parameter handling and unwind code cleanup.
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- Show: Linux Kernel Daily
- Published: 2026-09-24T06:00:44Z
- Audio duration: PT1M58S
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Good morning, it's September 24th, 2026.
There is no broad pattern across subsystems today, just one focused architecture pull for Parisc, merged in commit 62f4c99 as part of the 7 point 3 release candidate 5 fixes. The pull, submitted by Helge Deller and merged by Linus Torvalds, contains four Parisc-only commits. The clear priority is stability on 64-bit…
The most important change increases the kernel stack to 32 kilobytes on 64-bit Parisc kernels to avoid crashes. For developers building or testing on this architecture, that added headroom reduces the risk of stack exhaustion from deep call chains and interrupts, which can cause sudden, difficult to diagnose…
Related to that reliability theme is a fix to boot initialization to parse early parameters in the architecture setup step. This ensures huge page settings requested on the kernel command line are recognized early enough to take effect. If you work with large memory pages on Parisc, this means boot-time tuning…
The second theme is maintainability with no behavior change expected. Unwind handling replaces hand-written binary search logic with the standard kernel search helper, which lowers maintenance burden and removes a…
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