linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] kthread: allocate kthread structure using kmalloc

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Date:   Mon, 24 Oct 2016 21:10:06 +0200
From:   Roman Penyaev <roman.penyaev@...fitbricks.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] kthread: allocate kthread structure using kmalloc

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 06:08:13PM +0200, Roman Pen wrote:
>> This patch avoids allocation of kthread structure on a stack, and simply
>> uses kmalloc.  Allocation on a stack became a huge problem (with memory
>> corruption and all other not nice consequences) after the commit 2deb4be28
>
> 2deb4be28077 ("x86/dumpstack: When OOPSing, rewind the stack before do_exit()")
>
> Is the normal quoting style.
>
> .gitconfig:
>
> [core]
>         abbrev = 12
> [alias]
>         one = show -s --pretty='format:%h (\"%s\")'

Nice tip. Thanks.

--
Roman