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We have debugging options for looking at max stack depth, like CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE. But no distros seem to turn that on. There's also some ftrace stuff, but I assume none of that is used at runtime either. Do we need some max stack depth instrumentation that folks will actually turn on? It would be nice if we spat out warnings when folks went through 12k (or 8k) of stack so there was a chance of closing the loop and getting feedback from them. It could be done with really little overhead if the vmalloc()'d stacks set Accessed=0 on their PTEs and then checked them near vfree(). The PTEs are already getting touched there, so the cachelines should be hot anyway. The granularity would only be 4k, but it would be so cheap that we could turn it on universally. It would also be 100% deterministic. There are, of course, more games that could be played with stack depth checks on normal interrupts or NMIs. But those would be less deterministic. Thoughts?