Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Dec 1997 09:34:44 +0100 (MET) | From | Magnus Sjoegren <> | Subject | Re: Various bugs, 2.1.66 - still there 2.1.71 |
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On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > I guess that spontaneous reboots are mostly caused by kernel stack > > overflow. As it seems to be pretty widespread problem, it might be > > nice to produce patch to detect such overflows (and panic() machine so > > that messages are not lost). > > > > [With one version of kernel, all you had to do to reboot the machine > > was to press t and <TAB> twice in bash$ prompt ;-)] > > you might want to give ktrace a go, it detects stack overflows as well. > Alternatively you also might want to try EGCS's --check-stack, i dont know > what it does, it might need some tweaking to suit kernel needs. > > -- mingo >
Had this behaviour again with 2.1.75. Where can one find a recent ktrace?
Magnus
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