From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: J?rn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>,
mingo@elte.hu, andrea@suse.de, riel@redhat.com,
torvalds@osdl.org, arjanv@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 4k stacks in 2.6
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 14:02:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040526190216.GA5414@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040526111222.4159a771.davem@redhat.com>
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 11:12:22AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 26 May 2004 14:50:14 +0200
> J?rn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> wrote:
>
> > Change gcc to catch stack overflows before the fact and disallow
> > module load unless modules have those checks as well.
>
> That's easy, just enable profiling then implement a suitable
> _mcount that checks for stack overflow. I bet someone has done
> this already.
There was a patch floating around for this in the 2.2 era that I
ported to 2.4 on one occassion. It won't tell you worst case though,
just worst observed case.
Sparse is probably not a bad place to put a real call chain stack analysis.
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-26 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 106+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-23 19:43 4g/4g for 2.6.6 Phy Prabab
2004-05-23 20:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-23 20:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-24 1:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-24 2:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-24 2:33 ` Wim Coekaerts
2004-05-31 9:51 ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-24 3:30 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-06-01 5:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-05-23 21:55 ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24 7:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-24 7:11 ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24 7:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-24 7:27 ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24 12:01 ` Dave Jones
2004-05-24 2:39 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-05-24 8:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-24 12:48 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-25 19:15 ` Rik van Riel
2004-05-25 19:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-25 19:50 ` Rik van Riel
2004-05-25 20:10 ` Rik van Riel
2004-05-25 21:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-26 10:33 ` 4k stacks in 2.6 Ingo Molnar
2004-05-26 12:50 ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-26 12:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-26 13:00 ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-26 13:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-26 16:41 ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-27 12:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-27 13:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-27 14:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-27 14:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-06-02 19:40 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-05-27 14:18 ` Brian Gerst
2004-05-27 14:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-27 14:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-27 15:39 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-27 18:31 ` Guy Sotomayor
2004-05-27 19:26 ` Brian Gerst
2004-06-01 5:56 ` 4k stacks in 2.6 [worst offenders] Jörn Engel
2004-06-01 6:02 ` [RFC PATCH] explicitly mark recursion count Jörn Engel
2004-06-01 12:20 ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-01 13:27 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-01 13:32 ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-01 13:37 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-01 19:48 ` Horst von Brand
2004-06-01 19:29 ` Horst von Brand
2004-06-01 19:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-02 13:16 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-02 14:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-02 14:27 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-02 14:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-02 15:04 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-02 15:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-02 15:27 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-02 15:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-02 16:17 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-02 16:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-02 17:17 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-02 17:32 ` Greg KH
2004-06-02 17:46 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-02 14:35 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-06-02 18:20 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-02 18:37 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-06-02 18:58 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-02 19:33 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-06-02 19:37 ` viro
2004-06-02 19:45 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-02 19:59 ` viro
2004-06-03 6:55 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-02 19:55 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-06-02 23:20 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-06-03 7:29 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-01 12:39 ` viro
2004-06-01 13:26 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-07 18:14 ` 4k stacks in 2.6 Timothy Miller
2004-06-08 6:26 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-08 8:45 ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-26 18:12 ` David S. Miller
2004-05-26 19:02 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2004-05-26 19:25 ` Dave Jones
2004-05-25 21:16 ` 4g/4g for 2.6.6 Andrew Morton
2004-05-25 21:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-25 22:09 ` David S. Miller
2004-05-25 22:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-25 23:10 ` David S. Miller
2004-05-25 21:04 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-05-24 1:33 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-05-24 1:38 ` Phy Prabab
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[not found] ` <1ZRFf-2Vt-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <203Zu-4aT-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-05-26 13:57 ` 4k stacks in 2.6 Andi Kleen
2004-05-26 18:17 ` hch
2004-05-26 18:24 ` Andi Kleen
2004-05-26 20:39 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
[not found] ` <206b3-5WN-33@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <20baw-1Lz-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-05-26 19:32 ` Andi Kleen
2004-05-27 11:27 ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-27 13:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-27 14:15 ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-27 14:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-27 14:59 ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-27 15:08 ` Keith Owens
2004-05-27 15:21 ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-27 15:34 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-27 15:46 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-01 5:25 ` Jörn Engel
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2004-05-26 15:17 Albert Cahalan
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