Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264242AbTEGVTO (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 17:19:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264243AbTEGVTO (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 17:19:14 -0400 Received: from 34.mufa.noln.chcgil24.dsl.att.net ([12.100.181.34]:63220 "EHLO tabby.cats.internal") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264242AbTEGVTM (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 17:19:12 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Jesse Pollard To: Jonathan Lundell , =?iso-8859-1?q?root=40chaos=2Eanalogic=2Ecom=2CJ=F6rn=20Engel?= Subject: Re: top stack (l)users for 2.5.69 Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 16:30:50 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: Linux kernel References: <20030507132024.GB18177@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <03050716305002.07468@tabby> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 642 Lines: 13 On Wednesday 07 May 2003 12:13, Jonathan Lundell wrote: [snip] > One thing that would help (aside from separate interrupt stacks) > would be a guard page below the stack. That wouldn't require any > physical memory to be reserved, and would provide positive indication > of stack overflow without significant runtime overhead. It does take up a page table entry, which may also be in short supply - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/