Re: [2.6.32] scheduling while atomic

Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-02T16:00:49Z

On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 11:12:44AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> With a trace like that, it's almost certain that you've blown
> the stack and that is why the system is crashing. Can you turn on
> stack depth checking (might require a kernel rebuild) so we can tell
> if these problems are a result of overruning the stack?

Even better move on to a recent kernel - we're now preventing the
VM from reentering the filesystem for reclaim, which should take
care of all practical stack overlfow issues.