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: <4974497B.7060302@Calva.COM>
Date:	Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:35:55 +0100
From:	John Hughes <john@...va.COM>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
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

Andi Kleen wrote:
> 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
>   
Ah, thanks, neater than my fix.
> Morale: If you use ancient kernels you miss a lot of bugfixes.
>   
Hey, don't you be ruining my morale, it's low enough already.  :-)

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