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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] x86 transition to 4k stacks (0/3)
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On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:59:55PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> The kernel currently uses an 8k stack, per task.  Here is the 
> infrastructure needed to allow us to halve that at some point in the 
> future.
> 
> This is a port of work Ben LaHaise did around 2.5.20 time.  I split it
> up and updated it for the new preempt_count semantics.
> 
> I split the original patch up into 3 pieces (apply in this order):
> * clean thread info infrastructure (1/3)
>   - take out all instances of things like (8191&addr) to get
>     current stack address.
> * stack checking (3/3)
>   - use gcc's profiling features to check for stack overflows upon
>     entry to functions.
>   - Warn if the task goes over 4k.
>   - Panic if the stack gets within 512 bytes of overflowing.
> * interrupt stacks (3/3)
>   - allocate per-cpu interrupt stacks.  upon entry to
>     common_interrupt, switch to the current cpu's stack.
>   - inherit the interrupted task's preempt count
> 
> Any suggestions on how to deal with "gcc -p" and old, buggy versions
> of gcc would be appreciated.

You might have better luck with -finstrument-functions; I don't know if
it is supported as far back but I don't believe it was buggy.  It has a
few fewer quirks than mcount profiling.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer