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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de, mingo@elte.hu, andrea@suse.de,
	riel@redhat.com, torvalds@osdl.org, arjanv@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 4k stacks in 2.6
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 21:32:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38yff7zn3.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20baw-1Lz-15@gated-at.bofh.it> (David S. Miller's message of "Wed, 26 May 2004 20:20:08 +0200")

"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> writes:

>> Change gcc to catch stack overflows before the fact and disallow
>> module load unless modules have those checks as well.

It's impossible to do anything but panic, so it's not too helpful
in practice. You can only do better for interrupts
(not handle an interrupt when the stack is too low).

> That's easy, just enable profiling then implement a suitable
> _mcount that checks for stack overflow.  I bet someone has done
> this already.

I did it for x86-64 a long time ago. Should be easy to port to i386 
too.

ftp://ftp.x86-64.org/pub/linux/debug/stackcheck-1

-Andi


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-26 19:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1ZQpn-1Rx-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <1ZQz8-1Yh-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <1ZRFf-2Vt-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <203Zu-4aT-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-05-26 13:57       ` 4k stacks in 2.6 Andi Kleen
2004-05-26 18:17         ` hch
2004-05-26 18:24           ` Andi Kleen
2004-05-26 20:39         ` Zwane Mwaikambo
     [not found]       ` <206b3-5WN-33@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]         ` <20baw-1Lz-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-05-26 19:32           ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-05-27 11:27             ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-27 13:49               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-27 14:15                 ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-27 14:49                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-27 14:59                     ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-27 15:08                       ` Keith Owens
2004-05-27 15:21                         ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-27 15:34                           ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-27 15:46                             ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-01  5:25                             ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-26 15:17 Albert Cahalan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-25 19:50 4g/4g for 2.6.6 Rik van Riel
2004-05-25 20:10 ` Rik van Riel
2004-05-25 21:15   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-26 10:33     ` 4k stacks in 2.6 Ingo Molnar
2004-05-26 12:50       ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-26 12:53         ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-26 13:00           ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-26 13:05             ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-26 16:41               ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-27 12:45                 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-27 13:59                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-27 14:03                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-27 14:42                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-06-02 19:40                         ` Bill Davidsen
2004-05-27 14:18                     ` Brian Gerst
2004-05-27 14:50                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-27 14:55                         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-27 15:39                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-27 18:31                           ` Guy Sotomayor
2004-05-27 19:26                             ` Brian Gerst
2004-06-07 18:14             ` Timothy Miller
2004-06-08  6:26               ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-08  8:45                 ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-26 18:12         ` David S. Miller
2004-05-26 19:02           ` Matt Mackall
2004-05-26 19:25             ` Dave Jones

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