Re: unit-at-a-time...

[Mikael Pettersson]

On 01 Nov 2004 02:39:41 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Disabling unit-at-a-time for i386 is definitely correct.
>> I've personally observed horrible runtime corruption bugs
>> in early 2.6 kernels when they were compiled with gcc-3.4
>> without the -fno-unit-at-a-time fix.
>
>Maybe you got a buggy gcc version. The 2.6.5 based SLES9/i386
>kernel is shipping with -funit-at-a-time compiled with a 3.3-hammer
>compiler and I am not aware of any reports of stack overflow
>(and that kernel is extremly well tested) 

It happened when I added perfctr to a 2.6.5-based SuSE kernel,
and compiled the whole thing with gcc-3.4.0 (or 3.4.1, don't
remember). Perfctr normally adds a little stack usage to the
context-switch path, but gcc-3.4 made it much worse.
Disabling unit-at-a-time solved the problem.

/Mikael
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