From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: "David C. Hansen" <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.COM>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] (3/3) stack overflow checking for x86
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 21:30:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021031213032.GA25685@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1036092052.4272.96.camel@nighthawk>
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 11:20:52AM -0800, David C. Hansen wrote:
> * stack checking (3/3)
> - use gcc's profiling features to check for stack overflows upon
> entry to functions.
> - Warn if the task goes over 4k.
> - Panic if the stack gets within 512 bytes of overflowing.
> - use kksymoops information, if available
>
> This won't apply cleanly without the irqstack patch, but the conflict is
> easy to resolve. It requires the thread_info cleanup.
I'm wondering about interaction between this patch and the
already merged CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW ?
Dave
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| Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-31 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-31 19:18 [PATCH] (1/3) cleanup thread info on x86 David C. Hansen
2002-10-31 19:20 ` [PATCH] (2/3) per-cpu interrupt stacks for x86 David C. Hansen
2002-10-31 19:20 ` [PATCH] (3/3) stack overflow checking " David C. Hansen
2002-10-31 21:30 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-10-31 22:08 ` David C. Hansen
2002-11-01 12:59 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-01 13:42 ` Dave Jones
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2002-10-18 22:07 Dave Hansen
2002-10-18 22:31 ` Dave Hansen
2002-10-18 22:48 ` Andreas Dilger
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