linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

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Message-ID: <20070727183807.2d7dbe7b@the-village.bc.nu>
Date:	Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:38:07 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>
Cc:	Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...e.de>, Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>,
	Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>, Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>,
	David Chinner <dgc@....com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

> Maybe I should resurrect it & send it out...
> 
> (FWIW I think I recall that the warning itself sometimes tipped the
> scales enough on 4k stacks to bring the box down)

You can always switch stack for the printk and it probably should panic
at that point and give a trace then die as that is what we are trying to
prove does not occur
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