Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] kthread: allocate kthread structure using kmalloc

From: Roman Penyaev
Date: Mon Oct 24 2016 - 15:10:34 EST


On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 06:08:13PM +0200, Roman Pen wrote:
>> This patch avoids allocation of kthread structure on a stack, and simply
>> uses kmalloc. Allocation on a stack became a huge problem (with memory
>> corruption and all other not nice consequences) after the commit 2deb4be28
>
> 2deb4be28077 ("x86/dumpstack: When OOPSing, rewind the stack before do_exit()")
>
> Is the normal quoting style.
>
> .gitconfig:
>
> [core]
> abbrev = 12
> [alias]
> one = show -s --pretty='format:%h (\"%s\")'

Nice tip. Thanks.

--
Roman