Re: A patch to arch/i386/kernel/irq.c to help get backtraces of (near) stack overflow situations

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sat Jan 17 2009 - 23:02:57 EST


John Hughes <john@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Here's a little patch to irq.c to make stack overflow dumps use a
> separate stack.

This has been fixed last year in mainline with
04b361abfdc522239e3a071f3afdebf5787d9f03

Morale: If you use ancient kernels you miss a lot of bugfixes.

-Andi

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