On Apr 30 2007 19:11, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >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. Options are there to be disabled, making the cost ideally zero for people who do not want a specific feature. Jan -- - 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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