linux-kernel - Re: Wanted: simple, safe x86 stack overflow detection

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Date:	Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:28:35 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Bill Irwin <bill.irwin@...cle.com>
Cc:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Wanted: simple, safe x86 stack overflow detection

> I'm certainly in favor of the move; IRQ stacks could be made
> rather deep and cheaply at that. I may get around to writing it this
> week if no one else does it first.

the irq stacks aren't the problem; RH at some point accidentally shipped
a kernel with 4k *shared* irq/user context stack and even that gave
almost no issues.

irq's really shouldn't actually nest; it's bad for just about everything
to do that (but that's another story, I would *love* to get rid of the
"enable irqs" thing in the x86 irq path, it hurts just about anything in
reality)

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