Re: top stack (l)users for 2.5.69

From: Jesse Pollard (jesse@cats-chateau.net)
Date: Wed May 07 2003 - 16:30:50 EST


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
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