From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [patch] larger kernel stack (8k->16k) per task
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 11:57:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020208115755.E1429@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020208110930.C1429@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202081645170.1359-100000@einstein.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202081645170.1359-100000@einstein.homenet>; from tigran@veritas.com on Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 04:59:47PM +0000
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 04:59:47PM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > If you need even more in your code (I assume you do otherwise you wouldn't
> > have done the work) then I really suggest you take a long hard look and fix
> > the obvious bugs or the design....
>
> Arjan, I completely agree with you, but please do not overlook one obvious
> thing -- sometimes (well, most of the time) in order to fix those stack
> corruption issues you _first_ need to apply this patch and then it becomes
> obvious that the reason for this "random" corruption is the stack
> overflow. A kernel panic is not shouting like "I am a stack overflow!"
Stack redzoning makes a lot of sense. And checking isn't that expensive...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-08 16:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-08 16:06 [patch] larger kernel stack (8k->16k) per task Tigran Aivazian
2002-02-08 16:09 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-02-08 16:59 ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-02-08 16:57 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2002-02-08 17:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-02-08 18:16 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-08 18:29 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-02-08 18:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-02-08 20:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-02-08 18:15 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-08 20:22 ` Jes Sorensen
2002-02-08 21:12 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-02-09 7:17 ` george anzinger
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-08 15:20 Tigran Aivazian
2002-02-08 15:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-02-08 15:43 ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-08 15:52 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-08 20:08 ` Andrew Morton
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20020208115755.E1429@devserv.devel.redhat.com \
--to=arjanv@redhat.com \
--cc=alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=riel@conectiva.com.br \
--cc=tigran@veritas.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox