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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [3.4-rc3] Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:15:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120418031557.GA29828@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120418022705.GA23877@home.goodmis.org>

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:27:05PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:

 > Note we have something that checks the stack, even on leaf functions.
 > 
 > Enable CONFIG_STACK_TRACER
 > 
 > and then enable it with the following:
 > 
 > # echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/stack_tracer_enabled
 > # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/stack_trace
 >         Depth    Size   Location    (40 entries)
 >         -----    ----   --------
 >   0)     3056     208   select_task_rq_fair+0x30b/0x8b2
 >   1)     2848      96   try_to_wake_up+0xc7/0x30e

That looks handy. Doesn't seem to work for me though on my test box.
(config option is enabled.)

# echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/stack_tracer_enabled
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/stack_trace
        Depth    Size   Location    (-1 entries)
        -----    ----   --------

That's all she wrote.

	Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-18  3:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-17 17:21 [3.4-rc3] Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted Dave Jones
2012-04-17 20:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-17 20:32   ` Dave Jones
2012-04-18  1:36     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-18  2:27       ` Steven Rostedt
2012-04-18  3:15         ` Dave Jones [this message]
2012-04-18  3:43           ` Steven Rostedt
2012-04-18  3:50             ` Dave Jones
2012-04-18  3:57               ` Steven Rostedt
2012-04-18  4:00                 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-04-18  4:07                   ` Dave Jones
2012-04-18  4:06                 ` Dave Jones
2012-04-18  4:09                   ` Steven Rostedt
2012-04-18 13:58                     ` Dave Jones
2012-04-18 14:56                       ` Steven Rostedt
2012-04-18 15:27                         ` Dave Jones
2012-04-18 15:30                         ` Dave Jones
2012-04-18 16:43                           ` Steven Rostedt
2012-05-23 14:37                             ` Steven Rostedt
2012-05-23 15:05                               ` Dave Jones
2012-05-23 15:14                                 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-04-18 15:40                         ` Steven Rostedt
2012-04-18  3:19       ` Dave Jones
2012-04-18 17:02         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-18 17:14           ` Dave Jones
2012-04-18 18:24             ` Linus Torvalds

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