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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:33:19 +0200
From: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel <joern@logfs.org>
To: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] slub: reduce total stack usage of slab_err & object_err
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On Tue, 30 September 2008 16:15:36 +0100, Richard Kennedy wrote:
> 
> I've been trying to build a tool to estimate the maximum stack usage in
> the kernel, & noticed that most of the biggest stack users are the error
> handling routines.

Cool!  I once did the same, although the code has severely bitrotted by
now.  Is the code available somewhere?

Jörn

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