* [PATCH] (0/4) stack updates for x86
@ 2002-12-09 22:09 Dave Hansen
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From: Dave Hansen @ 2002-12-09 22:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: benh; +Cc: Arjan van de Ven, Linux Kernel Mailing List
The kernel currently uses an 8k stack, per task. Here is the
infrastructure needed to allow us to halve that. The original work
was by Ben LaHaise. I broke it out into several patches and updated
it for the current kernels.
A-thread_info_cleanup-2.5.50+bk-5.patch
Gets asm-i386/thread_info.h ready for the irqstack and
overflow detection patches
B-interrupt_stacks-2.5.50+bk-5.patch
Have special stacks for use in interrupts.
C-stack_usage_check-2.5.50+bk-5.patch
Check for stack overflows on entry to each funtion. Use gcc's
-p profiling feature to do it.
D-4k-stack-2.5.50+bk-5.patch
make a config option to turn on 4k stacks. (there appears to
be a problem with this right now).
--
Dave Hansen
haveblue@us.ibm.com
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