From: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Oops in pdflush
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 14:47:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17292.1077979674@ocs3.ocs.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <je4qtl7u44.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 04:00:34 -0800,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
>Having just looked at the code, I don't understand the problem.
>
>If kernel thread A starts kernel thread B and kernel thread B starts
>kernel thread C and so on, how does that cause stack windup?
Backtrace from a pdflush task on standard 2.6.3 ia64.
schedule+0xf30
__pdflush+0x230
pdflush+0x20
kernel_thread+0x100
pdflush_init+0x30
do_initcalls+0xc0
init+0xe0
kernel_thread+0x100
rest_init+0x30
start_kernel+0x460
_start+0x280
Each use of kernel_thread results in a cloned stack which inherits the
stack usage from the previous thread. Some architectures have a
kernel_thread helper which resets the stack, others do not. Without a
helper, each call whittles away at the stack.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-28 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-20 13:34 Oops in pdflush Andreas Schwab
2004-02-20 14:18 ` Keith Owens
2004-02-20 14:52 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-02-20 16:41 ` David Mosberger
2004-02-20 17:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-02-20 23:09 ` David Mosberger
2004-02-22 13:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-02-22 14:08 ` Keith Owens
2004-02-22 16:52 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-02-24 1:54 ` Grant Grundler
2004-02-27 10:16 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-02-27 13:58 ` Keith Owens
2004-02-28 6:52 ` David Mosberger
2004-02-28 9:39 ` David Mosberger
2004-02-28 9:45 ` Keith Owens
2004-02-28 10:00 ` Keith Owens
2004-02-28 10:20 ` David Mosberger
2004-02-28 10:23 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-28 12:00 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-28 14:47 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2004-02-28 14:55 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-02-28 18:26 ` David Mosberger
2004-02-28 23:59 ` Keith Owens
2004-02-29 3:44 ` Keith Owens
2004-02-29 5:27 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-01 10:34 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-03-01 19:46 ` David Mosberger
2006-09-06 13:39 ` D.N.Jagannathan
2006-09-06 17:44 ` Chen, Kenneth W
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