Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759773AbZAREC4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:02:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754582AbZARECr (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:02:47 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:55490 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754489AbZARECq (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:02:46 -0500 To: John Hughes Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: A patch to arch/i386/kernel/irq.c to help get backtraces of (near) stack overflow situations From: Andi Kleen References: <49707BA9.1040102@Calva.COM> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:01:59 +0100 In-Reply-To: <49707BA9.1040102@Calva.COM> (John Hughes's message of "Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:20:57 +0100") Message-ID: <87k58tdzyg.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 583 Lines: 19 John Hughes 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 Morale: If you use ancient kernels you miss a lot of bugfixes. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- 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/