linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] i386: Execute stack overflow warning on interrupt stack

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Date:	Mon, 05 May 2008 15:47:38 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: Execute stack overflow warning on interrupt stack


> We've lost the information about how close we are... that'd be nice to
> keep if possible....

If you don't want to fix it then the message was unnecessary and your
threshold was too high. So you should always fix when you see the
message and the how close information is unnecessary. That is why I
dropped it.

> 
> Can we keep the old printk string and pass the remaining stack in as an arg?

It would have complicated the patch.

-Andi

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