Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754693AbXEJEIQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 00:08:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755225AbXEJEHy (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 00:07:54 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([65.172.181.25]:43722 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757004AbXEJEHy (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 00:07:54 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 21:07:38 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Jeff Dike Cc: LKML , uml-devel Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] UML - Monitor stack usage Message-Id: <20070509210738.a06b005a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070509202722.GA22464@c2.user-mode-linux.org> References: <20070509202722.GA22464@c2.user-mode-linux.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 658 Lines: 14 On Wed, 9 May 2007 16:27:22 -0400 Jeff Dike wrote: > In preparation for reducing stack size, add a machanism to see how > much of a kernel stack is used. This fills a new stack with 0x6b on > allocation and sees where the lowest non-0x6b byte is on process > exit. It keeps track of the lowest value and logs values as they get > lower. but, but. We already have CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE? - 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/