Re: [RFC][PATCH] 4KB stack + irq stack for x86

Dave Hansen
2002-10-02T22:13:18Z

Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 02:18:36PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
>
>>I've resynced Ben's patch against 2.5.40. However, I'm getting some
>>strange failures. The patch is good enough to pass LTP, but
>>consistently freezes when I run tcpdump on it.
>
> Try running tcpdump with the stack checking patch applied. That should
> give you a decent backtrace for the problem.

My first suspicion was that it was just overflowing, but not getting
the message out. I just realized that my latest testing (the last 24
hours) was on the original patch, not the updated one that you posted
later, which included the stack checking. I'm sure that I was having
the same problem with the overflow checking enabled and _not_ getting
any errors from it, but I'll redo the testing for my sanity's sake.

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Dave Hansen
haveblue@us.ibm.com