Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 08 Feb 2002 17:23:32 +0000 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [patch] larger kernel stack (8k->16k) per task |
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Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > If you need even more in your code (I assume you do otherwise you wouldn't > > have done the work) then I really suggest you take a long hard look and fix > > the obvious bugs or the design.... > > Arjan, I completely agree with you, but please do not overlook one obvious > thing -- sometimes (well, most of the time) in order to fix those stack > corruption issues you _first_ need to apply this patch and then it becomes > obvious that the reason for this "random" corruption is the stack
Well, there's also a simple script you can run on the vmlinux to catch big offenders.... I can even see the point of running that at the end of "make bzImage" and abort or at least seriously warn if there are offenders that, say, allocate more than 2Kb of stackspace. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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