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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	uml-devel <user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] UML - Monitor stack usage
Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 21:07:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070509210738.a06b005a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070509202722.GA22464@c2.user-mode-linux.org>

On Wed, 9 May 2007 16:27:22 -0400 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> wrote:

> In preparation for reducing stack size, add a machanism to see how
> much of a kernel stack is used.  This fills a new stack with 0x6b on
> allocation and sees where the lowest non-0x6b byte is on process
> exit.  It keeps track of the lowest value and logs values as they get
> lower.

but, but.  We already have CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE?

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-10  4:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-09 20:27 [PATCH 5/6] UML - Monitor stack usage Jeff Dike
2007-05-10  4:07 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-05-10 11:55   ` Jeff Dike

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