Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:25:12 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [2/6] add config option to vmalloc stacks (was: Re: [-mm patch] i386: enable 4k stacks by default) |
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On Apr 30 2007 19:11, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:43:10AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:38:19AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> > Here's what I did for i386 for someone concerned about blowing the stack. >> >> Add a config option to vmalloc() task stacks so that stack overflows are >> detected without fail, and with a fatal failure mode at that. > >Whee, this sounds like a really helpful although costly debugging option.
Options are there to be disabled, making the cost ideally zero for people who do not want a specific feature.
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