linux-kernel - Re: A patch to arch/i386/kernel/irq.c to help get backtraces of (near) stack overflow situations

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Message-ID: <87k58tdzyg.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Date:	Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:01:59 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	John Hughes <john@...va.COM>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A patch to arch/i386/kernel/irq.c to help get backtraces of (near) stack overflow situations

John Hughes <john@...va.COM> writes:

> Here's a little patch to irq.c to make stack overflow dumps use a
> separate stack.

This has been fixed last year in mainline with 
04b361abfdc522239e3a071f3afdebf5787d9f03

Morale: If you use ancient kernels you miss a lot of bugfixes.

-Andi

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ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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