Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758072AbZCBILR (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Mar 2009 03:11:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755465AbZCBILG (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Mar 2009 03:11:06 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:36790 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753808AbZCBILF (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Mar 2009 03:11:05 -0500 Message-ID: <49AB948E.1070706@suse.de> Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:10:54 +0100 From: Frank Seidel User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20081227) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ankita Garg Cc: linux kernel , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Adrian Bunk , Randy Dunlap , Frank Seidel , kernalert.de@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] lkdtm: reduce stack size References: <49AAE94E.8080308@suse.de> <20090302041148.GA7410@in.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20090302041148.GA7410@in.ibm.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 546 Lines: 14 Ankita Garg wrote: > The intention here is infact to trigger a stack overflow. This module is > used to test kernel dumping mechanism like kdump. So the expectation is > that the kernel will dump as soon as the stack overflows. Oh, i see. Then this patch of course doesn't make sense. Thanks, Frank -- 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/