Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

[Ingo Molnar]

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > might be an incorrect printout of stack_left :( The esp looks more or 
> > less normal. Not sure why it printed -52.
> 
> here's the stack_left calculation:
> 
> +       printk("ds: %04x   es: %04x   ss: %04x   preempt: %08x\n",
> +               regs->xds & 0xffff, regs->xes & 0xffff, ss, preempt_count());
> +       printk("Process %s (pid: %d, threadinfo=%p task=%p stack_left=%ld worst_left=%ld)",
> +               current->comm, current->pid, current_thread_info(), current,
> +               (regs->esp & (THREAD_SIZE-1))-sizeof(struct thread_info),
> +               worst_stack_left);
> 
> i cannot see anything wrong in it, [...]

that should be "esp", not "regs->esp". regs->esp is something different 
upon in-kernel faults. I've uploaded -27 with the fix - but it should 
only confirm that it's not a stack overflow.

	Ingo
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