On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:43:10AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:38:19AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > Here's what I did for i386 for someone concerned about blowing the stack. > > Add a config option to vmalloc() task stacks so that stack overflows are > detected without fail, and with a fatal failure mode at that. Whee, this sounds like a really helpful although costly debugging option. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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