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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] x86_64: expand kernel stack to 16K
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On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 09:53:08AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:

 > That sounds like a plan. Perhaps it would be useful to add a
 > WARN_ON_ONCE(stack_usage > 8k) (or some other arbitrary depth beyond
 > 8k) so that we get some indication that we're hitting a deep stack
 > but the system otherwise keeps functioning. That gives us some
 > motivation to keep stack usage down but isn't a fatal problem like
 > it is now....

We have check_stack_usage() and DEBUG_STACK_USAGE for this.
Though it needs some tweaking if we move to 16K

I gave it a try yesterday, and noticed a spew of noisy warnings as soon
as I gave it a workload to chew on. (Moreso than usual with 8K stacks)

	Dave