Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Nov 2011 09:00:05 +0200 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] x86: check stack overflows more reliably | From | Pekka Enberg <> |
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On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Mitsuo Hayasaka <mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@hitachi.com> wrote: > (2) check stack overflow in detail > Currently, only kernel stack is checked for the overflow, > which is not sufficient for enterprise systems. To enhance > reliability, expand stack overflow checking to IRQ and > exception stacks optionally. This is disabled by default > in Kconfig.
This sounds useful. What's the reason for not enabling this by default? Performance regressions?
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