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From: Jes Sorensen <jes@sunsite.dk>
To: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [patch] larger kernel stack (8k->16k) per task
Date: 08 Feb 2002 21:22:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d3eljvlo5u.fsf@lxplus052.cern.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202081645170.1359-100000@einstein.homenet>
In-Reply-To: Tigran Aivazian's message of "Fri, 8 Feb 2002 16:59:47 +0000 (GMT)"

Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com> writes:

> So, I found this patch useful at least for debugging. Moreover, I think it
> would be very useful to have it in Linus' kernel as a CONFIG_ option so
> that if people complain about random memory corruption then they can try
> to reproduce it with larger stack and then (with aid of /proc/stack) the
> offender is found and fixed. I cc'd Alan; if he thinks this is a bad idea
> I would be interested to know why.

Well as someone suggested, stick it under CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG then, it
surely shouldn't be an option to be enabled in normal production
kernels but for debugging it's fine.

Jes

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-02-08 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-08 16:06 [patch] larger kernel stack (8k->16k) per task Tigran Aivazian
2002-02-08 16:09 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-02-08 16:59   ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-02-08 16:57     ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-02-08 17:23     ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-02-08 18:16       ` Alan Cox
2002-02-08 18:29       ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-02-08 18:38         ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-02-08 20:54         ` Ingo Molnar
2002-02-08 18:15     ` Alan Cox
2002-02-08 20:22     ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2002-02-08 21:12       ` Mike Fedyk
2002-02-09  7:17         ` george anzinger
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-08 15:20 Tigran Aivazian
2002-02-08 15:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-02-08 15:43 ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-08 15:52 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-08 20:08 ` Andrew Morton

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