linux-kernel - Re: kernel + gcc 4.1 = several problems

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Message-Id: <200701070057.54684.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Date:	Sun, 7 Jan 2007 00:57:54 +0000
From:	Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@....ed.ac.uk>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>, 76306.1226@...puserve.com,
	akpm@...l.org, bunk@...sta.de, greg@...ah.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: kernel + gcc 4.1 = several problems

On Sunday 07 January 2007 00:36, Pavel Machek wrote:
[snip]
> > However, this patch is mostly useless if you have a separate stack for
> > IRQ's (since if that happens, any interrupt will be taken on a different
> > stack which we don't see any more), so you should NOT enable the 4KSTACKS
> > config option if you try this out.
>
> stupid idea... perhaps gcc-4.1 generates bigger stackframe somewhere,
> and stack overflows?

The primary reason it's not 4KSTACKS already is that I run multiple XFS 
partitions on top of an md RAID 1. LVM isn't involved, however, and I'm not 
using any other filesystem overlays like dm.

I'm fairly sceptical that it's a stack overflow, but I'll be sure to enable 
the debugging option on the next try.

> that hw monitoring thingie... I'd turn it off. Its interactions with
> acpi are non-trivial and dangerous.

Well, GCC 3.4 kernels seem to run fine with it, but as I said to Linus I'll be 
sure to turn this and the sound drivers off in the next build.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

Final year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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