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From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Jonathan Lundell <linux@lundell-bros.com>
Cc: root@chaos.analogic.com,
	"Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>,
	"Linux kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: top stack (l)users for 2.5.69
Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 12:01:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EB957FA.4080900@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: p05210601badeeb31916c@[207.213.214.37]

Jonathan Lundell wrote:
> One thing that would help (aside from separate interrupt stacks) 
> would be a guard page below the stack. That wouldn't require any 
> physical memory to be reserved, and would provide positive indication 
> of stack overflow without significant runtime overhead.

x86 doesn't really have big physical shortages right now.  But, the
_virtual_ shortages are significant.  The guard page just increases the
virtual cost by 50%.

The stack overflow checking in -mjb uses gcc's mcount mechanism to
detect overflows.  It should get called on every single function call.

-- 
Dave Hansen
haveblue@us.ibm.com


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-07 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-07 13:20 top stack (l)users for 2.5.69 Jörn Engel
2003-05-07 13:45 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-07 13:56   ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-07 14:16     ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-07 17:13       ` Jonathan Lundell
2003-05-07 17:40         ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-07 18:12           ` Roland Dreier
2003-05-07 18:28             ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-07 18:44               ` Timothy Miller
2003-05-07 18:46               ` Roland Dreier
2003-05-07 19:30                 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-07 19:42                   ` Roland Dreier
2003-05-07 20:04                     ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-07 20:23                       ` Roland Dreier
2003-05-07 20:42                       ` Timothy Miller
2003-05-08  9:06                         ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-08 11:33                         ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-08 12:00                           ` Helge Hafting
2003-05-08 15:42                           ` Timothy Miller
2003-05-09  8:57                             ` Miles Bader
2003-05-09 16:50                               ` Timothy Miller
2003-05-08 16:47                           ` Davide Libenzi
2003-05-07 18:51               ` Davide Libenzi
2003-05-07 19:22                 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-07 19:31                   ` Davide Libenzi
2003-05-07 19:39                   ` Hua Zhong
2003-05-07 21:47                 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-05-08 10:29           ` David Howells
2003-05-07 17:55         ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-07 16:20           ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-05-07 19:01         ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2003-05-07 20:06           ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-07 20:14             ` Dave Hansen
2003-05-08  8:41               ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-08 16:51                 ` Dave Hansen
2003-05-08 22:12                   ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-07 21:30         ` Jesse Pollard
2003-05-07 21:54           ` Timothy Miller
2003-05-07 22:01             ` Jesse Pollard
2003-05-07 14:33     ` Torsten Landschoff
2003-05-07 14:47       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-07 15:04         ` Torsten Landschoff
2003-05-07 16:01           ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-08 15:36             ` Ingo Oeser
2003-05-08 18:04               ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-07 15:23         ` Timothy Miller
2003-05-07 15:47           ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-07 16:49         ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-07 17:18           ` Davide Libenzi
2003-05-07 17:40             ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-07 18:35               ` Davide Libenzi
2003-05-07 19:45                 ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-07 18:23             ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-07 17:38           ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-07 17:47             ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-07 14:49       ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-07 18:36   ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-07 19:17     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-07 20:38       ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-05-07 21:27         ` Marcus Alanen
2003-05-07 21:27           ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-05-08 15:10         ` Ingo Oeser
2003-05-08 17:12           ` Randy.Dunlap
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-07 19:38 Chuck Ebbert
2003-05-08 14:08 Chuck Ebbert
2003-05-08 18:04 ` Jonathan Lundell
2003-05-08 19:05   ` Timothy Miller
2003-05-08 21:00     ` Jonathan Lundell

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