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* [PATCH, BACKPORT] end-of-stack detection
@ 2004-01-14 18:51 Manfred Spraul
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From: Manfred Spraul @ 2004-01-14 18:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Marcelo Tosatti; +Cc: linux-kernel

The oops dump code detects the end of the kernel stack with
    (addr & (THREAD_SIZE-1))
This fails if the kernel stack is not 32-bit aligned. This can happen if 
an APM bios call is interrupted and then causes an oops. The result is 
an unreadable and incomplete oops dump. 2.6 contains a similar fix.

Marcelo, could you apply the patch to your tree?

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    Manfred


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