Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks

Jörn Engel
2005-11-17T00:29:59Z

On Wed, 16 November 2005 15:54:27 -0700, Jeffrey V. Merkey wrote:
> Jeffrey V. Merkey wrote:
> >>
> >The SCSI layer needs to be checked. I reproduced another crash on
> >today on an older Niksun box running off the end of the stack.
> >
> It's somewhere in the scanning code. There's a case where it runs off
> the end of the stack. Check the compaq drivers for SATA as well, they
> also crash in a similiar place during bus scan. Both occurred during
> bootup, so I wasn't able to get a log of the particulars. Should be
> easy to reproduce. Compaq Presario 2200.

Do you have a backtrace for these? Real-life problem tend to generate
more attention than theoretical results based on code checkers.

Jörn

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