linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2] use canary at end of stack to indicate overruns at oops time

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Date:	Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:28:23 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
CC:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>,
	linux-kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] use canary at end of stack to indicate overruns at
 oops time

Harvey Harrison wrote:

> Also, do you expect this to ever be used outside of sched.c?  Maybe just
> leave it as a static function there rather than an inline in the header.

the patch uses it in exit.c....

-Eric
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