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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Segfault on the i386 enter instruction
Date: 15 May 2006 20:44:01 +0200
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 20:44:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060515184401.GA89194@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4468B733.7010101@aknet.ru>

On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 09:15:31PM +0400, Stas Sergeev wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> >>Aren't the rlimit and the other checks of acct_stack_growth()
> >>not enough, or am I missing something obvious?
> >Traditionally Linux doesn't have a stack ulimit.
> That clarifies the roots of this %esp check, as without
> the stack ulimit and without the proper memory accounting
> (the case of 2.4?) such a check is the "last hope" - I've
> got the point. But are there the reasons to still keep it
> in 2.6, considering also the false-positives? It seems to
> have the STACK_RLIMIT and it seems to get the memory accounting
> right, and not too many arches seem to have such a check even.

Linux doesn't have a STACK_RLIMIT by default no.
It is set by a few distributions (for use with flexmmap) in PAM, but
not by all. The kernel defaults don't have it.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-15 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-14 17:56 Segfault on the i386 enter instruction Stas Sergeev
2006-05-15  7:40 ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-15 17:15   ` Stas Sergeev
2006-05-15 18:44     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-05-15 19:38       ` Stas Sergeev
2006-05-15 19:56         ` Lee Revell
2006-05-15 22:49           ` Ingo Oeser
2006-05-15 22:56             ` Lee Revell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-05-17  8:20 Chuck Ebbert
2006-05-16  2:29 Chuck Ebbert
2006-05-16  9:32 ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-12 13:16 Tomasz Malesinski
2006-05-12 13:47 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-05-12 13:50 ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-12 14:03   ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-05-12 15:31   ` Tomasz Malesinski
2006-05-15 11:36     ` Bart Hartgers
2006-05-15 11:46       ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-15 13:36       ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-05-15 14:19         ` Bart Hartgers
2006-05-12 14:07 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-05-12 14:20   ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-05-12 14:42     ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-05-12 14:53       ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-05-15 20:53   ` Bill Davidsen

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