On Sunday October 9 2005 John Rigg wrote:
>Steve, thanks for these patches. I got it to compile with 2.6.14-rc3-rt12
>but had to change the assembly lines in (patched) latency.c to
>
> __asm__ __volatile__("and %%rsp,%0" :
> "=r" (stack_left) : "0" (THREAD_SIZE - 1));
>
>ie. `and' instead of `andl' and `%%rsp' instead of `%%esp'.
>Somebody who understands x86_64 assembly better than I do should probably check
>this before anyone tries using it.
>While I was at it I changed a printk arg in line 335 of (patched)
>latency.c - I think the last %d should be %ld, ie.
>
>printk("| new stack-footprint maximum: %s/%d, %ld bytes (out of %ld bytes).\n",
> worst_stack_comm, worst_stack_pid, MAX_STACK-worst_stack_left, MAX_STACK);
Ingo, thanks to help from Steve Rostedt I got 2.6.14-rc3-rt12 to compile
with CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW=y on x86_64 smp. Unfortunately if I enable
it along with latency tracing (which is causing the crash during boot)
it crashes so early that I can't get anything from the serial console,
even using earlyprintk. All I get is a blank screen for a few seconds
then the machine reboots.
I have all other debugging options disabled (apart from necessary dependencies
for these two). This of course means that I can't confirm whether the crash
is caused by stack overflow.
With latency tracing disabled but CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW=y the kernel
boots and runs fine.
BTW this is still with initrd. If the stack footprint is likely to
be smaller with initramfs I'll give it a try, but it'll be a few days
before I can set this up (I still have to work out how to use initramfs).
John
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