Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Nov 2002 13:42:38 +0000 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] (3/3) stack overflow checking for x86 |
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On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 12:59:06PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 21:30, Dave Jones wrote: > > > This won't apply cleanly without the irqstack patch, but the conflict is > > > easy to resolve. It requires the thread_info cleanup. > > > > I'm wondering about interaction between this patch and the > > already merged CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW ? > > It replaces it and actually makes it useful since IRQ usage is now > bounded and defined relative to non IRQ usage. Without IRQ stacks you > don't have a hope in hell of catching overflows that depend on an irq > occuring at the right moment
Yeah, I figured it worked better, but wondered why the patch didn't remove the existing implementation.
Dave
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