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SubjectRe: 4KSTACKS + DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW harmful
Mike Snitzer wrote:

> Hi Eric,
>
> Did you happen to get a patch together that reduces the stack usage of
> dump_stack?

Nope... but Andi Kleen sent a patch to put the warning on the irq stack
rather than the main process stack, so it avoids the original problem
with DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW at least.

> Also, what did you use to print your (above) indented callchain stack
> usage of dump_stack?

That was just hand-edited... :)

> I'd like to be able to audit the worst case stack usage of _all_ call
> chains that originate from a given thread. This would effectively be
> like DEBUG_STACK_USAGE except with finer grained (per call-chain)
> statistics. One crude way of doing this is to dump_stack() whenever a
> task's call-chain is the new "winner" as the biggest stack hog.

When will you test for the new winner?

> To do this safely it would seem to me that a leaner dump_stack() is needed...

It depends, I guess; if you have 8k stacks it'd probably fit ok in
almost all cases, I think.

> Lastly, would it be reasonable to utilize systemtap to implement what
> I described above? I'm actually looking to debug 4KSTACKS as
> unobtrusively as possible so as to not alter the underlying kernel (in
> this case it happens to be a RHEL5 kernel but this could apply to any
> kernel).

I don't actually know if systemtap can do what you want (not saying it
can't; just saying I don't know...)

-Eric


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