Re: 4k stacks in 2.6

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 02:02:22PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:

 > There was a patch floating around for this in the 2.2 era that I
 > ported to 2.4 on one occassion. It won't tell you worst case though,
 > just worst observed case.
 > 
 > Sparse is probably not a bad place to put a real call chain stack analysis.

That won't measure any dynamic stack allocations that we're doing
at runtime, nor will it test all n combinations of drivers, which
is where most of the stack horrors have been found in recent times.

		Dave

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