linux-kernel - Re: [005/107] sparc: Allow handling signals when stack is corrupted.

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Message-Id: <20111104.020919.1596634708556929724.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 04 Nov 2011 02:09:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ben@...adent.org.uk
Cc:	gregkh@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [005/107] sparc: Allow handling signals when stack is
 corrupted.

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 04:33:28 +0000

> But is there a real application that needs this?

You get zero debugging information when this happens so without
this change analysis of a crash is virtually impossible.
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